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USA this Friday he accused Iran from having planned the murder of Einat Kranz-Neiger, the Israeli ambassador to Mexico.
“The plot was neutralized and does not represent a current threat”a US official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The alleged murder attempt was frustrated by Mexico’s intelligence services this summeraccording to the American media Axios, which also detailed that The plan to carry out the crime would have been launched at the end of 2024.
According to information from Axios, the operation would have been led by a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who for years has recruited agents throughout Latin America “from the Iranian embassy in Venezuela.”
The alleged plot would have taken place after Israel attacked the complex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, then a close ally of Tehran, with several high-ranking officers of the Revolutionary Guards killed. That attack prompted promises of revenge from Iran, which launched a wave of missiles and drones against Israel.
In statements reported by Axios, US officials claim that this alleged plan to assassinate the Israeli ambassador is further proof of “the extensive network” with which Iran operates abroad against “American and Israeli targets”, in this case in Latin America.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry stated that its security and intelligence agents “will continue to work tirelessly” in cooperation with other agencies around the world “to thwart terrorist threats from Iran and its allies against Israeli and Jewish targets.”
Israel has long been a target of Iranand particularly after the attack by US bombers on Iranian nuclear facilities last June.
The security services of Great Britain and Sweden already warned last year that Tehran was using criminal groups to carry out attacks in those countriesand London claimed to have dismantled 20 plots linked to Iran since 2022.
A dozen other countries have condemned what they called an increase in assassination, kidnapping and harassment plots by Iranian intelligence services.
The head of British domestic intelligence, the director general of the MI5Ken McCallum claimed last month that Iran was “frantically” trying to silence its critics around the world, citing how Australia had exposed Iranian involvement in anti-Semitic plots and Dutch authorities had revealed a failed assassination attempt.