Overview
- U.S. and Israeli officials allege the IRGC’s Quds Force planned to assassinate Ambassador Einat Kranz‑Neiger, saying Mexican security services disrupted the plot over the summer and that there is no current threat.
- Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said it had received no information about any attempt, and Iran’s embassy in Mexico denounced the claim as “a great big lie.”
- Reporting ties the plan to Unit 11000 and to activity based out of Iran’s embassy in Venezuela, with intelligence documents naming IRGC officer Hasan Izadi, also known as Masood Rahnema, as a key initiator.
- Officials have withheld operational details, declining to say how the plot was discovered or foiled, whether suspects were arrested, or what methods were planned.
- U.S. and Western accounts cast the case as part of a wider pattern of Iran‑linked targeting of diplomats, journalists, and dissidents overseas in recent years.