ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IDAN KWELLER, REUTERS
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Mexico thwarted an Iran-directed terror attack aimed at harming the Israeli ambassador to the country, the Foreign Ministry shared on Friday.
The announcement by the ministry came hours after N12 published that American and Israeli officials confirmed the IRGC planned an attack against Ambassador Einat Kranz-Neiger as part of a wider attack on Israeli and American interests in the region.
“We are in the line of fire at this time, diplomats are literally standing at the forefront as they represent the State of Israel in a climate that is not always simple. We are well aware of the history of Iran and its attacks in Latin America, and this is a good opportunity to thank the authorities and security services here in Mexico for their assistance in thwarting it,” said Kranz-Neiger to Walla.
“Since the news was published, I have been interviewing the media in Mexico and conveying the messages to reflect the complexity of this time, and especially the Iranian threat in the form of attacks of this type that, as mentioned, we have seen in the world in the past,” she added.
Planned throughout 2024, the IRGC planned to kill the ambassador in early 2025 in a now-thwarted plot. American officials assured N12 that there is no longer an active threat.
A man holds a candle as he attends a demonstration in support of Palestinians and the Global Sumud Flotilla, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, outside the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, September 20, 2025. (credit: JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS)
A man holds a candle as he attends a demonstration in support of Palestinians and the Global Sumud Flotilla, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, outside the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, September 20, 2025. (credit: JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS)

Israel’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement, thanked the security and law enforcement services in Mexico for “thwarting a terrorist network directed by Iran that sought to attack Israel’s ambassador in Mexico.”

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The Iranian Embassy in Mexico said the accusation was “entirely false,” the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
“We will never tarnish the good reputation of Mexicans, our friends. We consider betrayal of Mexico’s interests as betrayal of our own interests, and respecting Mexico’s laws is our highest priority,” Mehr cited the embassy as saying.

Iran’s attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets

American sources told N12 that large components of the attacks were planned from the Iranian embassy in Venezuela and were led by Hassan Izadi.

After spending years recruiting from the Venezuelan embassy, Izada was relocated to a new position in Tehran, where he was said to have continued his plots against the Israeli ambassador. The same IRGC unit, the Quds Force’s Unit 11000, was also behind a number of recently thwarted attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets in Australia and Europe, according to Axios.
“This is just the latest example in a long history of assassination attempts by Iran around the world against diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and anyone who disagrees with it – something that should raise deep concern in any country where there is an Iranian presence,” the American official said.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Oren Marmorstein confirmed that, “The Israeli intelligence and security community will continue to work tirelessly, in full cooperation with security and intelligence agencies around the world, to thwart terror threats from Iran and its proxies against Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide.”
Security services in Britain and Sweden warned last year that Tehran was using criminal proxies to carry out violent attacks in those countries, with London saying it had disrupted 20 Iran-linked plots since 2022.
A dozen other countries have condemned what they called a surge in assassination, kidnapping, and harassment plots by Iranian intelligence services.
Britain’s domestic spy chief, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, said last month that Iran was “frantically” trying to silence its critics around the world, and cited how Australia had exposed Iranian involvement in antisemitic plots and Dutch authorities had revealed a failed assassination attempt.