The United States and Israel accuse Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, but say the threat is over.
Mexican security services foiled the plot, US and Israeli officials tell Axios.
A US official says that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force initiated the plot in late 2024 and that it was disrupted this year.
Axios reports it was led by an operative from the IRGC’s Unit 11000, who spent years at Iran’s embassy in Venezuela recruiting Iranian agents from across Latin America.
“The plot was contained and does not pose a current threat,” a US official tells AFP on condition of anonymity.
In Israel, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Oren Marmorstein says: “The Israeli intelligence and security community will continue to work tirelessly, in full cooperation with security and intelligence agencies around the world, to thwart terror threats from Iran and its proxies against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide.”
The Iranian mission to the United Nations declines to comment.
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