Suspect was smuggled to Iran and demanded $1mn to carry out surveillance in bid to kill prime minister or other senior figures, says Israel
An Israeli man has been charged with spying on Iran’s behalf, including allegedly demanding $1mn to carry out surveillance for an assassination plot against the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other senior figures, the Shin Bet security agency said. The unnamed businessman, identified in Hebrew media reports as a Jewish man in his 70s, was smuggled into Iran from Turkey twice, including once hidden in the cabin of a truck, the Shin Bet said. He was arrested in August.
The man was apprehended in August but had visited Iran in May, and then again in August at the height of tensions between Israel and Iran, after Israeli assassinations and Tehran’s retaliations brought the region to the edge of full-blown war.
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