The Mossad announced Thursday that it foiled a plot by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence to infiltrate an operational cell into Israel to target senior Israeli officials. The agency's statement did not provide further details on timing or specific targets.
The Mossad on Thursday evening directly announced that it had foiled a plot by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) to infiltrate an operational cell into Israel to target senior Israeli officials. The statement, released in Hebrew, provides no additional details on the timing, the specific targets, or the cell's composition. The announcement comes a minute after The Zioneer reported at 17:32 Jerusalem that the plot was foiled through international intelligence cooperation, a detail not reiterated in the Mossad's own statement.
At 17:32 Jerusalem, The Zioneer published a rapid series of updates on the same development. The first bulletin, citing the Prime Minister's Office, disclosed that the Mossad and Shin Bet, working with international partners, had dismantled a cell built by a French-based operative named 'Philip' who was expelled from France. A second update identified the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence as the orchestrator and detailed a criminal proxy network. A third noted the release of a diagram of the cell members and handlers. The fourth confirmed that the Mossad officially attributed the foiling to international cooperation. The source of the disclosures evolved from the PMO to the Mossad itself within the same minute.
The foiled plot is part of Iran's ongoing proxy-by-proxy campaign to target Israeli and Jewish interests worldwide, as The Zioneer reported on July 19 and July 22 in the context of interceptions by Bahrain's forces and an alleged plot against Yair Netanyahu. The Zioneer also noted on July 3 that the PMO rejected a New York Times report on an alleged Israeli assassination plot against Iranian negotiators.
No details have been provided on when the plot was to be carried out, which senior officials were targeted, or the composition of the cell. The Mossad statement omitted any mention of the international cooperation that The Zioneer had reported earlier today.
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