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2023-06-26 Europe
Cyprus thwarts Iranian attack targeting Jews and Israelis — reports
[IsraelTimes] Planned terror attack said foiled by intelligence services cooperating with Israeli, US counterparts; reportedly connected to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

A terror attack targeting Jews and Israelis was thwarted in Cyprus, it was reported by Cypriot media on Sunday.

According to the reports, the planned attack was believed linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is a branch of the Iranian army and is considered a terror organization by several countries, including the United States.

Israel’s National Security Council warned earlier this year that Cyprus and Greece are countries where Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is likely to target Jews and Israelis. The countries are popular destinations for Israeli tourists, in addition to having relatively sizable expat communities.

The Phile News website said the plot was thwarted by Cypriot intelligence services, in cooperation with other foreign agencies, said to be from Israel and the US.

The report said that the attackers were using the northern part of the island as a staging post for the potential attack and that Cypriot intelligence services had closely followed the cell for a number of months.

An unnamed official told the outlet that the foiling of the plot showed that Cyprus would not allow its own territorial conflict to create a "security hole" through which attacks can be carried out.

There was no immediate confirmation from Israeli officials.

In October 2021, Israel said that an Iranian plot against Israeli businesspeople in Cyprus had been foiled. According to reports, the hired killer was of Azerbaijani origin and had arrived in Cyprus on a flight from Russia using a Russian passport.

Landing in Larnaca on the Cypriot southern side of the island, he was said to have made his way to the Ottoman Turkish-controlled city of Paralimni in the north where he rented a room and two vehicles. He reportedly crossed the Ottoman Turkish-Cypriot border back and forth a number of times on a bike.

Iranian plots against Israelis have also been foiled in several other countries over the past year.

In November, Georgian security officials foiled an attempt by a Pak citizen to murder an Israeli in Georgia on orders from an Iranian operative.

In July, Ottoman Turkish forces stymied an attempt by Iranian agents to kill Israelis in Istanbul, arresting three men. The news came a month after the Mossad spy agency and its local counterparts managed to thwart three Iranian attacks targeting Israeli civilians in Istanbul. Iran denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
Also in June, security forces in Thailand were reportedly successful in preventing an Iranian agent from establishing a terror cell in the country and potentially carrying out attacks against Israelis.

Courtesy of Enver Slager8035, Reuters adds:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised the thwarting of what he said was an Iranian attack against Israeli targets in Cyprus.

A statement from Netanyahu's office did not give any more details, but Israeli news website Ynet, without disclosing its sources, said an attack had been planned against Israelis staying in the city of Limassol.

Cyprus declined to comment on whether an attack had been foiled.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [22 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 ...May or may be no connection, but the Israelis and Cypriots confirmed last week that Merkava tanks may be headed that way after the Cypriots donated a bunch of their ex-Russian tanks to Ukraine.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-06-26 06:54||   2023-06-26 06:54|| Front Page Top

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