Israel fears Iran will try to attack Israelis abroad to avenge a senior Iranian army commander who was killed in Tehran, and is preparing to present contrary recommendations to some of the Islamic Republic’s border destinations, the Twelfth Channel reported on Thursday.
The considerations came after leaks linking Israel to the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Colonel Sayyad Khodai, who he killed Sunday at the hands of a gunman in the back of a motorcycle while sitting in his car outside his home. The New York Times cited resources as saying Israel had told the United States it had carried out the coup.
Israel fears the advances will increase Iran’s motivation to attack Israelis abroad.
Senior government and defense status quo officials have held a series of consultation meetings in recent days on the issue and will reportedly soon take the resolution to reiterate opposing warnings to Iran’s neighboring countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Azerbaijan and, in all likelihood. Turkey.
The government does not intend to disregard the warnings, but rather to insist on existing precautionary instructions, the report says.
An Israeli official told the station that lately there is no express intelligence warning about the attacks. However, the source said Israelis would be urged to be careful when visiting Azerbaijan and traveling to the United Arab Emirates or Bahrain, unless it is a necessity. the presence of terrorist infrastructure in those countries.
According to the report, Israel surprised with the leak, which allegedly came from an American source.
There were “numerous phone calls” today between Israel and the United States about the leak, according to the report, which notes that both sides have now “put the incident to them. “
However, the director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the United States will have to provide responses related to the New York Times report.
“I am the explanations for our discussions with the Americans,” Alon Ushpiz told state broadcaster Kan.
MK Ram Ben Barak, who heads the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, in an interview Thursday morning on Israeli radio station 103FM that the incident “primarily damages trust. “
“We have a lot of close relationships and a lot of cooperation that depends on trust, and when it is violated in one way or another, long-term cooperation is damaged,” he added. “I hope the Americans will investigate the leak and locate where it came from here and why it happened. “
The Revolutionary Guards denounced Khodai’s killing as a “terrorist act,” accusing him of “elements of global arrogance,” a reference to the United States and its allies, Israel.
The spokesman for the chiefs of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, said Monday that an investigation had been opened into cases related to Khodai’s murder.
An anonymous intelligence official told the New York Times on Wednesday that Israeli officials had relayed data on the killing of Khodaei, who was shot dead Sunday outside his home in Tehran.
The report did not specify which country the intelligence official represented, however, according to Ynet, the Israeli security status quo believes in the American source and is furious about the leak. Israeli officials told the Hebrew-language news site that these are not easy answers from their American counterparts. , as the New York Times report attributes the duty of the murder only to Israel and absolves the United States of having played any role.
According to the Times report, Israeli officials claimed that Khodaei, the deputy head of the so-called Unit 840, a hard-to-understand department within the IRGC’s Quds Expeditionary Force that carries out kidnappings and assassinations of figures outside Iran, adding that they oppose Israelis. Khodaei, in particular, guilty of Unit 840’s operations in the Middle East, however, was involved in attempted terrorist attacks against Israeli, European and American civilians and government officials in Colombia, Kenya, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus, in the afterlife alone. .
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that, among the targets, Khodaei planned to kill French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
His assassination was intended to warn Iran that the organization will have to halt its operations, the intelligence official was quoted as saying by the Times.
Israel has not made any official comment on the incident and has reportedly raised security alerts at its embassies and consulates around the world, fearing a retaliatory Iranian attack.
Khodaei’s murder is the highest-profile killing in Iran since the November 2020 killing of high-level nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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