Thursday, September 19, 2024 - An Israeli citizen has been arrested after allegedly accepting money from Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant and Shin Bet Director
Ronen Bar announced today that Tehran was behind a plot to kill senior
officials in Israel following the assassination of Hamas'
political chief Ismail Haniyeh in late July.
Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other top Israeli
officials were also named as Iranian targets claimed to have been uncovered by
Israeli intelligence.
Iran had allegedly planned to employ an Israeli businessman
with extensive time spent in Turkey to develop a plot on Netanyahu's life
within Israel.
The plans were reportedly said to have been underway as
early as April this year, when Turkish citizens reached out to the Israeli
businessman to talk through the plan.
Andrei Farouk Aslan and Guneid Aslan were named as the
intermediaries serving to connect the alleged assassin with Iran via Turkey.
They were alleged to have met with the unidentified Israeli
citizen in Samandag in May to meet and discuss the plot.
The Israeli businessman was alleged to have requested one
million dollars before agreeing to anything.
Israeli intelligence understands he then received 5,000
euros as he underwent training in Iran.
As part of his work for Iran, he was allegedly requested to
take videos of Israeli sites for surveillance and intelligence gathering
purposes and threaten other Israelis who Iran had already approached that were
not complying with their own spy missions.
It was also gathered that Iran had asked the businessman to
try to recruit Russians and Americans capable of killing Iranian figures
opposed to the regime.
Shin Bet, an Israeli intelligence agency, did not suggest
how far the suspect had got with his missions.
They stressed that foiling one plot did not end the
overarching threats facing Israel.
The businessman was indicted on Thursday.
Iran had vowed swift retaliation after Hamas' political
chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike in Tehran on July 31.
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