The Mossad intelligence agency foiled an Iranian terrorist plot against a staffer of the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul last year.
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The Quds Force, an elite unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, "commissioned one of its agents to assassinate an Israeli employee of the country's consulate in Istanbul," according to the report.
Conflicting reports said the Mossad intercepted the operative, said to be 52-year-old Mansour Rassouli, either inside Iran or in Europe and was holding him at a black site in one of those places.
During his interrogation, the operative reportedly admitted to having also targeted a US general in Germany and a journalist in France.
The story was first reported by Iran International, a London-based news channel; Israeli media confirmed the report with an unnamed "senior Israeli intelligence source."
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The detained operative is a member of the Quds Force's Unit 840, a unit tasked with planning and executing overseas operations against Western targets, including exiled members of the Iranian opposition.
According to the report, the operative confessed to receiving an advance of $150,000; a further $1 million would've been paid upon the successful completion of the assassination.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
