Former Shin Bet director Ronen Bar and his wife were urgently evacuated from the United Arab Emirates after an Iranian threat was detected, according to the Jerusalem Post. Bar was attending a security conference hosted by UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
A new detail emerged Monday morning in the evacuation of former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar from the UAE: the Jerusalem Post reports the security threat that prompted the urgent extraction was Iranian in origin. Bar and his wife, Dafna Bar-Agassi, were evacuated Sunday evening while Bar was attending a security conference hosted by Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Post's attribution adds a specific source for the threat, which The Zioneer first reported at 23:56 Sunday as an uncharacterized security alert conducted under heavy secrecy.
Earlier Sunday at 20:31 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported the evacuation had occurred during the conference under a heavy veil of secrecy, without specifying the nature or origin of the threat. By 23:56, an initial dispatch noted the evacuation but no attribution for the threat. The Jerusalem Post's Monday report now attributes the threat explicitly to Iran — a development that shifts the framing from a general security incident to one involving a direct state-actor threat against a former Israeli security chief on Emirati soil.
The incident comes against a backdrop of heightened Israel-Iran tensions. As The Zioneer reported on June 8, Iran had threatened unspecified "surprises" in the hours ahead, with the IDF chief and air force commander in the war room at 06:56 Jerusalem that same day. An unidentified UAE-origin aircraft also landed at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on June 8 after special clearance, despite a declared flight suspension, per Iran's Fars News Agency — a detail that underscores the complex security landscape in which Bar's evacuation unfolded.
No further details have emerged on the specific nature of the Iranian threat, whether it was detected before or during the conference, or Bar's current location. The Jerusalem Post report itself remains a single-source account; no official Israeli, Emirati, or Iranian confirmation has been published as of Monday morning.
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