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An Israeli man was arrested last month for allegedly being recruited by Iran to assassinate Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, or the head of the Shin Bet security agency, Ronen Bar.
The Shin Bet and Police announced the arrest in a joint statement on September 19, saying that the suspect, a Jewish Israeli civilian, was indicted.
According to the Shin Bet and police investigation, the suspect was a businessman who lived for lengthy periods in Turkey, where he had business and social relations with Turkish and Iranian nationals.
In April 2024, the suspect agreed, through the mediation of two Turkish people, Andrey Farouk Aslan and Junayd Aslan, to meet with a rich businessman living in Iran named Eddy, to advance business activity, per the joint statement. The Israeli suspect traveled to the Turkish city of Samandag, close to Syria, and met with two representatives sent by the Iranian businessman. There, the suspect and the Iranian held a phone call, after the latter was unable to leave Iran.
In May 2024, the statement said that the suspect traveled to Turkey to meet with Andrey, Junayd, and Eddy’s two representatives.
After the Iranian businessman was apparently again unable to leave Iran and travel to Turkey, the Israeli man was smuggled into Iran via a land crossing near the eastern Turkish city of Van, according to the statement.
In Iran, the suspect met with Eddy and another man called Khwaja, who presented himself as a member of Iran’s security forces. The suspect also presented himself as an Israeli citizen during a meeting at Eddy’s house in Iran.
During that meeting, Eddy suggested to the Israeli suspect that they carry out various missions in Israel for the Iranian regime, including sending money or a handgun to specified locations, taking photos of crowded public areas, and threatening Israeli civilians who are also operating on behalf of Iran and did not carry out their missions, the statement said.
The Israeli suspect said he would look into it, and in August 2024, returned to Iran. He was smuggled into Iran via a land crossing, hidden inside a truck.
The security agency says that at Eddy’s house, the Israeli man met with Iranian intelligence officials, who asked him to “advance assassination attacks” on Netanyahu, Gallant or Bar.
The Iranian intelligence officials also looked into the possibility of assassinating other senior officials, including former prime minister Naftali Bennett, according to the statement.
The Shin Bet and Police said that the assassination plans were seen by the Iranian officials as revenge for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Iran held Israel responsible for the assassination.
According to the statement, the Israeli man asked for $1 million upfront before carrying out any of the tasks. The following day, the Israeli suspect met again with the Iranian intelligence officials, where they again discussed the assassination plans of senior Israeli officials, the Shin Bet says.
During that meeting, according to the investigation, it was also suggested that the Israeli man place money at various locations in Israel for others who are being operated by Iran. Other plans suggested in the meeting were for the Israeli man to locate Russian or Americans and task them with assassinating Iranian dissidents in Europe and the United States, and to recruit a Mossad member as a double agent.
Also in this meeting, the Israeli man demanded a million dollars in advance, but the Iranian intelligence agents denied his request and said they would contact him in the future.
According to the statement, before leaving Iran for the second time, the Israeli man was given 5,000 euros by one of the Iranian intelligence agents for participating in the meetings.
Following the release of the announcement of the arrest, Hebrew media identified the suspect as 73-year-old Moti Maman from the southern city of Ashkelon. Still, not much is known about his business activity and connections.
Earlier this week, the Shin Bet said that it foiled an attempt by Hezbollah, a close ally of Iran, to target a former senior Israeli official. The security agency also revealed that the Lebanese group was behind an attempt to assassinate Moshe Ya’alon, former Israeli Minister of Defense and former IDF Chief of Staff, that took place last year.
Israel has been engaged in a decades-long shadow war with Iran and its allies across the Middle East and beyond. Tensions between the two sides rose significantly following the outbreak of the war in the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip in October of last year.
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the persians need to kidnap/ threaten relatives of israelis nationals in third countries to ensure compliance. giving zionists cash is no way to get things done when they print the goyim currency. the zionists seem to only understand violence and force unfortunately as their history attests.
the israeli cabinet has given pm netanyahu and defence minister gallant the authorization to undertake military action against hezbollah despite the fact that this will probably lead to an all-out war and may then force iran to get involved to open yet another front to weaken russia since russia will have to support iran.
if the united snakes chooses to act as dumb goy muscle for talmudistan yet again, it will be the end of the us empire. the rest of the world has had a belly full of the amerikunts. they are reviled, loathed and despised almost as much as the shlomos. they will collapse like house of cards.
does anyone believe this garbage? imagine recruiting a 70 plus years old civilian to assassinate some of the best guarded people on the earth. a typical jewish false flag operation
it is true rita katz and barbara lerner spector and rabbi schmule said it was true and breaking news intel
bb and ukrainian khazar z penile piano man need to hide in a deep gold or silver mine for safety.
if the owners of the mine object just kill them and claim it as chabad property
there is a significant portion of the population who care only about their own happiness and blissfully ignore anything that requires a single thought at all. obviously, they’re going to die in what’s coming or be used as stupid sex toys like our illustrious chosenites like to use on earth. a masterwork of beauty, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the planet, or is it that there is nothing right with it?
the khazhar pirate screams out in pain as he stabs you in the back
poor bb
it is time to kill genocidal israeli leaders. that’s a great idea. let them live in perennial fear for their lives. when the schizophrenic zionist is gripped by fear, he makes his greatest mistakes
i expect this was just the first of the many tries in the future