If we review some of the available information on the plots that have been
publicly disclosed we clearly see that they are tied to Iran
and/or Hezbollah.
Evidence from Washington has revealed that a bombing in Istanbul in May might not have been the work of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as claimed, but was in fact perpetrated by the Lebanon-based Islamist organization Hezbollah, the Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Monday.
…According to the report, the attack, in which eight were wounded, was meant to target Israeli Consul General to Istanbul Moshe Kamhi as retaliation for the Mossad’s alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Masoud Ali Muhammedi in Tehran in 2010.
Three Hezbollah members who allegedly arrived in Istanbul from Beirut to execute the hit on Kimche traced the route the Israeli envoy took from his home to the Israeli consulate every day, calculating when to detonate the bomb in Istanbul’s Etiler neighborhood, the Italian daily reported.
Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security has revealed. Meanwhile, an Azeri commentator considered close to the republic's president has launched a scathing indictment of Iran.
The Azeri ministry said it had arrested a cell that planned to "kill public activists," before it became apparent that the intended victims were two Israeli Chabad emissaries, a rabbi and a teacher employed by the "Chabad Or Avner" Jewish school in Baku. The ministry said that the three men, named as Rasim Aliyev, Ali Huseynov and Balaqardash Dadashov, received smuggled arms and equipment from Iranian agents. The action was apparently planned as retaliation to the gunning down of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah might be preparing a major terrorist attack against Israeli citizens residing or travelling to Bulgaria, it was reported Thursday.
According to Russian Israeli website IzRus, the information was unearthed by Bulgarian secret services, which promptly informed their Israeli colleagues.
The report adds that the alleged attacks were scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of the killing of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughnieh, who was liquidated Febuary 12, 2008.
Syed Ahmad Kazmi, 50, the freelance journalist arrested for allegedly facilitating an attack on an Israeli diplomat’s wife in February, was in ‘indirect touch’ with the operational head of an international conspiracy to target Israeli diplomats, Delhi Police claimed on Thursday. They also claimed he was paid to help such activities in the capital.
Nabbed by the Special Team from his Jor Bagh residence on March 6, Kazmi was allegedly paid $5,500 by one Seyed Ali Sadr Mehdian, an associate, ‘to provide assistance in India’ for the international terror plot during two trips the former made to Tehran in 2011, Delhi Police Commissioner BK Gupta said.
“Mehdian directed Kazmi to meet Houshang Afsar Irani of Iranian origin, when the latter came to Delhi. Kazmi and Irani had receed the Israeli Embassy together and also discussed the matter of targeting Israeli diplomats through explosive devices,” the commissioner said.
Irani, who is in his early 40s and has an open arrest warrant issued against in his name along with three of his other associates, is the man who stuck the magnetic explosive device on the Innova vehicle carrying Tel-Yehoshua Koren, 42, the wife of an Israeli defence attaché, on the afternoon of February 13, police said.
Technical surveillance, police said, revealed that Irani was in touch with Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, the operational commander and one of the three Iranian men who were poised to target Israeli diplomats in Bangkok on February 14.
Three Iranians detained after accidentally setting off explosives in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats, Thailand's top policeman said Thursday in the first confirmation by local officials that the group was plotting attacks in Thailand.
Thai security authorities announced Thursday that they have discovered a “direct connection” linking the attacks against Israeli diplomats in Georgia and India with the Iranian terror cell apprehended Tuesday in Bangkok.
The wave of Iranian efforts to attack Israeli interests abroad appears to be continuing, following an announcement by Azerbaijan on Tuesday that it had foiled another plot linked to Tehran and Hezbollah in Baku.
The conspiracy involved a cell linked to the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and the Lebanese terrorist organization, the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security said, according to state television.
Authorities detained the cell’s members and seized firearms and explosives, according to the Azerbaijani TV report.
Security services in Azerbaijan have arrested 22 people they say were hired by Iran to carry out terrorist attacks against the United States and Israeli embassies as well as groups and companies with Western ties. The national security ministry said Wednesday that the suspects, all Azerbaijan citizens, had been trained in Iran, its southern neighbor, by the Revolutionary Guards. In February, Azerbaijan announced the arrests of members of another suspected terrorist group that was said to have been working for Iran’s secret services, and in January two people were accused of plotting to kill two teachers at a Jewish school in the capital, Baku.
The Special Branch of the city police deported 40-year-old Iranian national Hamid Kashkouli, who was pursuing his PhD programme, from the University of Pune (UoP) last month. He was found spying on city-based Israeli nationals and Israeli centres such as Chabad House in Koregaon Park, and the Rasta Peth Synagogue. It was also learnt that Kashkouli was on the payrolls of the Iranian intelligence.
The government downgraded its travel warning for Israelis heading to Turkey to the lowest of four possible levels Tuesday. The dramatic downgrade — only weeks ago, the National Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau had warned of an “imminent threat” to Israelis there — came after Turkey reportedly foiled an Iranian terror plot.
Channel 2 reported on Tuesday night that the Mossad had given its Turkish counterparts information on an Iranian effort to attack Israelis, and that the Turks had acted effectively behind the scenes to thwart the plot.
Two Iranian men who led officials to a 33-pound stash of explosives have now allegedly admitted they were plotting to attack U.S., Israel, Saudi or British targets in Kenya, according to the Associated Press.
Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi, who appeared in a Nairobi court last week, were arrested on June 19 in Nairobi and then led Kenyan authorities to 15 kilograms of explosives in Mombasa. They are believed to be members of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, say Kenyan officials.
A Lebanese man who was detained by Cyprus police for planning attacks against Israeli tourists was planning the attacks for Hezbollah, local media quoted security officials as saying on Saturday.
According to press reports from the newspapers Sigma Live and Phileleftheros, security forces in Cyprus arrested a 24-year-old Lebanese citizen, who also holds a Swedish passport, after receiving information from Israeli intelligence. The man was in possession of photographs of Israeli targets, and information on Israeli airlines flying back and forth from Cyprus.
… The Cypriot newspaper Sigma Live reported that the man initially denied any connection to terrorist activity, but that after intensive questioning, he admitted that he was a member of Hezbollah. According to the report, Cypriot security forces found documents in his possession that indicated he was the head of a terror cell that was planning attacks against Israeli targets.
Investigation of the man revealed that he planned to blow up a plane or a tour bus. The newspaper Phileleftheros reported that the suspect was in possession of flight records of Israeli airlines in Cyprus. He was also in possession of information on tour buses carrying Israeli tourists, as well as lists of places frequented by Israeli tourists on the island.
American officials on Thursday identified the suicide bomber responsible for a deadly attack on Israeli vacationers here as a member of a Hezbollah cell that was operating in Bulgaria and looking for such targets, corroborating Israel’s assertions and making the bombing a new source of tension with Iran.If I missed any recent plots, leave a comment or send an email.
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