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Washington and Tel Aviv Accuse Iran of Planning to Assassinate Israeli Ambassador in Mexico Without Showing a Shred of Proof

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Here’s the kicker: according to the Mexican government, there are no official reports of any such attack.

A diplomatic crisis has erupted between Washington, Tel Aviv, Tehran and Mexico City over allegations that Iran plotted to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger. Given the claims remain unsubstantiated, come from unnamed sources of two governments (Trump’s and Netanyahu’s) whose words cannot be trusted, and has elicited wildly conflicting accounts from everyone involved, this post is, inescapably, speculative in nature.

Conflicting Accounts

On Friday (November 7), a US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, claimed that the Quds Force, the external operations arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had planned to assassinate Einat Kranz Neiger, Israel’s ambassador to Mexico. Without showing a shred of proof, the source said Mexico’s intel services had foiled the plot.

The alleged operation apparently took place before the summer, and was hatched in late 2024. In a telvised interview, Neiger confirmed that her life had been in danger while revealing no other information. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement even thanking Mexican security services for thwarting “a terrorist network directed by Iran.”

“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,” said Oren Marmorstein, spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

But here’s the kicker: according to the Mexican government, there are no official reports of an alleged attack against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico.” Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

In a joint statement, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection said they have received “no report with respect to a supposed attempt against the ambassador of Israel in Mexico”. The statement also emphasised that Mexico has not cut diplomatic ties with any country.

In other words, the sycophantic stenographers of the Western media, citing an unnamed US official, are reporting that Mexico’s intelligence services foiled an assassination plot about which Mexico’s government claims to have zero knowledge.

This, as far as I can tell, means one of two things: either Mexico’s intel agencies did not inform the government of the plot, which is hard (but not impossible) to imagine, or the plot was never foiled, because it never actually existed. In other words, this is just the latest episode in the long history of US-Israeli deception.

It is hard not to lean towards the latter. After all, the Trump administration is currently carrying out summary executions of boat crews of narco-terroristas on the Caribbean and Pacific without presenting a single shred of evidence of their culpability — and apparently without even having any actual knowledge of who they are. Here is former US Ambassador to Russia Michel McFaul openly gloating that US diplomats lie very often.

And here is Larry Wilkinson, the former chief of staff to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, explaining, in the frankest possible terms, why he “never, ever” believes Israeli officials:

Pot, Meet Kettle

The same unnamed US official said the foiled plot was a reminder of the extensive network that Iranian authorities maintain overseas that is ready to strike US and Israeli targets:

“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.”

What doesn’t get mentioned in the breathless media coverage is that Israel, the country making the latest allegation against Iran, has carried out more targeted assassinations beyond its borders than any other country since launching its genocidal campaign in Gaza two years ago. They include the 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists Israel claims to have taken out during the recent 12-Day War.

As Le Monde reported last year, “the practice of targeted elimination has been a constant feature of Israeli strategy, going back even before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.”

According to an article in Axios, the plan to kill Neiger was hatched by Unit 11000, the “shadowy” Quds Force unit that recently “tried to conduct attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Australia and Europe, according to sources familiar with the matter.” The same outlet reports that the plan was conceived from Iran’s embassy in Venezuela, which neatly knits together two nations that are currently on the US’ — and in the case of Iran, Israel’s — hit list.

“A Media Fabrication”

Tehran has “categorically rejected” the claims, calling them “a media fabrication” aimed at undermining “friendly relations” between Tehran and Mexico City.

“The accusation about an alleged attempt by Iran to assassinate the ambassador of the Israeli regime in Mexico is a media fabrication, a big lie, whose objective is to damage the historical and friendly relations between both countries (Mexico and Iran), which we categorically reject,” the Iranian legation in the Mexican capital stated in a Twitter post.

The Iranian Embassy stressed that “Iran and Mexico share identical interests. Mexico’s security and reputation are also Iran’s security and reputation.” The embassy also stated that the Islamic Republic will never betray “the trust that the Mexican government has placed” in Tehran.

Iran would in no way harm the good image of Mexicans, its “friends,” in the world, said the embassy. “We consider that betraying Mexico’s interests is betraying one’s own,” the note reads, adding that for the Islamic Republic it is a priority to “respect the laws of Mexico.”

In a statement on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei pointed out that Israel has previously made similar accusations against Iran, citing attacks on Jewish synagogues in Australia in late 2024. From Al Jazeera:

That appeared to be a reference to a testimony given by the New South Wales Police Force to the upper house of the Australian parliament in early October, which presented the result of an investigation into suspected Iranian links to 14 incidents of attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, and attacks on cars and homes.

“The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to foreign agents perpetrating these incidents,” a police representative told lawmakers at the time.

“Despite official statements by Australian police rejecting any connection to Iran, Israel has continued to insist on Tehran’s involvement,” Baghaei said.

However, in late August, Australia accused Iran of directing two “anti-Semitic” arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne and gave Tehran’s ambassador seven days to leave the country, the first such expulsion since World War II.

Canberra also designated the IRGC a “terrorist organisation” and withdrew its diplomats from Tehran.

At the time, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation had gathered credible evidence that Iran “orchestrated” last year’s attacks on a kosher restaurant and a synagogue, but did not release the evidence.

Mission Accomplished?

Judging by how quickly the fanfare has died down over the alleged plot against Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, one might assume that this presumed psy-op campaign was deemed unsuccessful, and has already been abandoned. Or perhaps the desired effect, of driving the initial edge of a wedge between Mexico and Iran, has already been achieved.

The fact that the Mexican government itself continues to deny any knowledge of the alleged plot does little for the credibility of Washington and Tel Aviv’s allegations. Perhaps if Mexico had a government that was more closely aligned with US-Israeli foreign policy — like, say, Argentina’s or Ecuador’s — this incongruity would have been avoided.

While Mexico’s Sheinbaum government has refused to cut ties with Tel Aviv over its genocide in Gaza, it did recently recognise what Israel has done in Gaza as genocide and called for its immediate termination. Mexico has also recognised Palestinian statehood and maintained its constitutional position of non-intervention both in Israel’s 12-Day War in Iran and the US-NATO’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

It’s worth recalling that the region of the world that has taken the strongest stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza is Latin America, with Colombia, Honduras, Bolivia and Nicaragua all cutting diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. Venezuela and Cuba had already severed relations with Israel long before the genocide began. Also, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro government is one of the few in the world to have imposed genuine economic sanctions on Israel.

It is therefore probably not outlandish to suggest that one of the many motivations for the US’ regime change operations and destabilisation campaigns in countries like Venezuela, Colombia Cuba and Mexico is to replace them with governments that are more disposed toward Tel Aviv — such as the new right-wing Rodrigo Paz government in Bolivia, which is already seeking to open a “new page” with Washington and Tel Aviv.

At the same time, the influence of Iran and its proxy groups like Hezbollah in Latin America is increasingly under the spotlight in Washington, Tel Aviv and their vassal states in the region. As we warned in September, the US is looking to merge two “failed” forever wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

From Machado to Milei…

At a recent event held in Miami by the America Business Forum, Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado claimed that Iran had turned Venezuela into its “satellite” — one of myriad ludicrous claims the US-sponsored regime change agent has made in recent weeks:

Granted, Venezuela and Iran have grown close in recent years, having signed a 20-year strategic agreement in June 2022 that provides for cooperation in energy, defence, agriculture, and other sectors. But the relationship seems to be fairly balanced and mutually beneficial. Ironically, one of the main factors bringing them closer together is the fact that both nations have been under stringent US sanctions over the past decade.

Machado, fresh off winning the Nobel Peace Prize, also pledged her unconditional support for President Trump’s military build-up in the Caribbean as well as his extrajudicial killings of her compatriots in the region. At the same time, she has offered to open up all of Venezuela’s resources, including its oil, gas, electricity grid and hundreds of miles of pristine Caribbean coastline, to Western investors if the US can place her on the throne.

“Maduro started this war and President Trump is ending it,” she said, describing the US strategy of summary murder on the high seas as “absolutely correct.”

The more Machado speaks in public, the more fantastical the claims that come pouring from her mouth. In an interview with Bloomberg, she accused Venezuela’s Maduro government of rigging elections throughout the region, including the 2020 US presidential elections that Trump lost. She has also claimed that Hamas is “hiding out” in Venezuela.

An interesting article last week in Time magazine (of all places) warns that whatever the US does in Venezuela (and beyond) “should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past” — in allusion to former US regime change operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

Few countries, not just in Latin America but the world, are more fervently pro-Israel than Milei’s Argentina. In the Spring of 2024, then-CIA Director William J Burns, senior Mossad agents and members of the BND, or German intelligence paid his government a visit . Out of the meetings came an agreement that Argentina would conduct intelligence on “terrorism threats”, primarily from Hezbollah, and drug trafficking in the “Triple Frontier,” a tri-border area along the junction of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, where the Iguazú and Paraná rivers converge.

As we warned in April 2024, Milei seems intent on embroiling Argentina in theatres of war, whether in Ukraine or in the Middle East, or both. By doing so, he is not only raising the risks of retaliatory attacks, he is also breaking with Argentina’s diplomatic tradition of moderation and neutrality, just as Carlos Menem did briefly in the early ’90s by sending two military frigates to participate in the first US-led Gulf War (Aug 2, 1990–Feb 28, 1991).

A year later, Israel’s embassy was attacked. Two years after that, it was the turn of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish Community Centre, in Buenos Aires. A bomb-laden van was driven into the AMIA building and subsequently detonated, killing 85 people and injuring over 300. To date, the bombing remains the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentine history and is still shrouded in mystery, as we reported a few months ago:

Thirty-one years on, no one has been arrested or tried for either crime. A Lebanese-Colombian member of Hezbollah, Amer Mohamed Akil Rada, was alleged (by the US) to have a hand in the first attack while the second attack was claimed by another Hezbollah-allied group and again involved Akil Rada.

In April last year, the Federal Court of Cassation, Argentina’s highest criminal court, ruled that Hezbollah had perpetrated the attack against AMIA under the orders of Iran. There have also been allegations, including from former MI5 agent Annie Machon, that it was a false flag attack perpetrated by Mossad and US intelligence.

One of the few things that is clear is that the investigation into the attacks was corrupt to the core. In 2019, the original magistrate in charge of the case, Juan José Galeano, was sentenced to six years in  prison for using public funds to bribe false witnesses to accuse a group of police officers of being the “local connection” to the attack. The prosecutors in the case and the main heads of the intelligence apparatus at the time of the attack were also tried and convicted of trying to cover up what had happened.

In 2023, the Federal Court of Cassation ordered that former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner be tried for having signed a pact with the alleged instigators (Hezbollah) to guarantee their impunity. However, former INTERPOL Director General Ronald K. Noble announced he was willing to appear as a witness to the fact that under President Cristina Kirchner INTERPOL was never asked to quash the arrest warrants against the Iranian suspects.

Now that Milei is in power, every effort is being made to move the case forward against Iran and Hezbollah. The government last year presented a bill to enable trials in absentia, which was formerly prohibited by Argentine legislation. Milei has also switched from describing AMIA as an “Islamic terrorist attack” to an “Iranian terrorist attack.”

In the US, Iran and Hezbollah’s close ties to Venezuela are likely to become another core plank in the government’s regime change policy and narrative. In early September, Fox News cited US officials and experts who claimed that the drug trafficking empire built by Hezbollah in Venezuela has ceased to be a regional affair and is increasingly seen as a direct threat to US internal security. Meanwhile, in Washington…

 

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  1. The Rev Kev

    ‘Canberra also designated the IRGC a “terrorist organisation” and withdrew its diplomats from Tehran. At the time, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation had gathered credible evidence that Iran “orchestrated” last year’s attacks on a kosher restaurant and a synagogue, but did not release the evidence.’

    As I said in a comment the other night, the ‘credible evidence’ turned out to have come from files supplied by Mossad. Surprise. The expulsion of the Iranian Embassy in Canberra was just political theater then with Albanese doing this to prove Oz’s support to the US and Israel or whatever.

    Mind you, the Al Qaeda President of Syria missed a great chance when meeting Trump. He could have torn his jacket open revealing rows of dynamite around his waist, shouted ‘Allah Akbar’, grabbed Trump and did the whole world a favour. Think of the fame and immortality that would have been his.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        You have to go looking now but here is the Times of Israel saying that Israeli intel, aka the Mossad, gave our spooks the info that they needed, fresh off the printers-

        https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-intel-helped-australia-uncover-irans-role-in-antisemitic-attacks-report/

        And here is a different story-

        https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/mossad-claims-iranian-guards-behind-bondi-deli-attack-despite-nsw-police-refuting-this/

        It’s all bs of course but who really believes anything that Israel says these days. Apparently our government who shut down the Iranian Embassy.

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