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'Iran's Quds Force, not Hezbollah, behind plot targeting Israelis'

Sources familiar with plans to target Israelis and Americans in Colombia say "consistent pattern of behavior" includes cooperation between local criminal organizations and international terrorists.

by  Damian Pachter
Published on  11-17-2021 08:34
Last modified: 11-18-2021 19:18
'Iran's Quds Force, not Hezbollah, behind plot targeting Israelis'AP

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' elite Quds Force operates outside Iran | File photo: AP

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Iran and its elite Quds Force appear to be behind a recent attempted killing of an Israeli in Colombia, despite original reports that the incident had been plotted by Hezbollah, Israel Hayom has learned.

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Sources familiar with the matter insist that there is a consistent pattern of behavior that centers around cooperation between local criminal organizations and international terrorist entities – at the head of which stands the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force.

The Colombia incident is the latest in a long series of recent attempted killings of Israeli businesspeople in Africa in retaliation for the targeted killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November.

The sources also said that the attempted killing comprised a violation of sovereignty, and stressed that it was Iran who was sending cells of trained killers to murder Israelis abroad.

"Two months ago we had to deal with a situation where we had to set up an operation to capture and expel two criminals mandated by Hezbollah who intended to commit a criminal act in Colombia," Molano said, in an interview with the local news outlet el Tiempo. According to the report, the plot included a cell that had been following a number of foreigners in Colombia, Americans as well as Israelis.

Colombia is accusing neighboring Venezuela of offering haven to terrorists, who then operate form insides its borders, as Israel Hayom reported in October.

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