A plot by Iran to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico has been foiled, officials announced Friday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards reportedly tried to assassinate the ambassador late last year, but the attempt was neutralized. Reuters reported that quoting a US official.
“The Israeli security and intelligence community will continue to work tirelessly, in full cooperation with security and intelligence agencies around the world, to thwart terrorist threats from Iran and its allies against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide.”
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Einat Kranz Neiger, Israeli Ambassador to Mexico (Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The US official told Reuters that the plot against Ambassador Einat Kranz Neiger was “contained and does not pose a current threat”.
“This is just the latest in a long history of Iran’s global deadly attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them, something that should deeply concern any country where there is an Iranian presence,” the official added.
Commanders and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps meet with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, August 17, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Reuters)
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Further details about the plot were not immediately clear.
An activist from a pro-Palestinian collective burns a poster with the Israeli flag outside the embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, February 11, 2025. (Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Security services in Britain and Sweden warned last year that Iran was leaning on criminal proxies to carry out attacks, with Britain claiming to have disrupted 20 Iran-linked plots since 2022, Reuters also reported.
