Officials disclosed on Friday that an Iranian plot to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico has been successfully foiled.
According to a U.S. official, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reportedly commenced efforts to kill the ambassador late last year, but these attempts were subsequently neutralized.
Israel’s foreign ministry expressed gratitude on Friday, stating, “We thank the security and law enforcement services in Mexico for thwarting a terrorist network directed by Iran that sought to attack Israel’s ambassador in Mexico.”
“The Israeli security and intelligence community is committed to continuing its tireless work, in full cooperation with security and intelligence agencies across the globe, to thwart and its proxies against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide.”
The U.S. official informed Reuters that the plot “was contained and does not pose a current threat.”
The official reportedly further commented that “This is just the latest in a long history of Iran’s global lethal targeting of diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them, something that should deeply worry every country where there is an Iranian presence.”
Additional details concerning the plot were not immediately apparent.
Reuters also conveyed that security services in Britain and Sweden had warned last year that Iran was employing criminal proxies to execute attacks, noting such activity since 2022.