Joseph M. Humire
Gatestone Institute, Nov. 22, 2021
“This is part of a foreign assassination campaign led by the infamous Qods Force, the elite arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who is attempting to avenge the death of Iran’s nuclear program chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in December 2020, and just one of many international covert terrorist operations that Iran carries out on a regular basis.”
In late June, Colombian authorities neutralized a possible Iranian-backed assassination plot in Bogota that could have killed two Israeli businessmen on Colombian territory. The plot, which began to unravel in April, involved an Iranian operative, Rahmat Asadi, who allegedly recruited two Colombian cutouts to carry out the operation.
Thankfully, the assassination plot was thwarted, but it shows that the long arm of Iranian terror reaches Colombia.
Colombia’s swift action, in this case, has even more significance after Israel recently foiled a series of similar assassination plots in at least three countries in Africa and another in Cyprus, against Israeli businessmen and tourists.
Joseph M. Humire is the executive director of the think tank the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) based in Washington D.C. and the co-author of the book Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (Lexington Books, 2014). You can follow him on Twitter @jmhumire. A version of this article was originally published in Spanish on November 13, 2021, on Infobae.
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