Overview
- U.S. and Israeli officials said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned an assassination of Ambassador Einat Kranz-Neiger in Mexico.
- A U.S. official said the operation began in late 2024, remained active through the first half of 2025, and was thwarted over the summer.
- The U.S. official said the plot was contained and does not pose a current threat, declining to detail how it was foiled.
- Reporting attributes the plan to the Quds Force’s Unit 11000 and to an operative who recruited across Latin America from Iran’s embassy in Venezuela, according to sources familiar with the matter.
- Israel publicly thanked Mexico’s security services for their role, as Western agencies cite a broader pattern of Iran-linked plots targeting Israeli, Jewish, and regime opponents in multiple countries.