The Israeli intelligence agency claims to have kidnapped an army assassin inside Iran, thwarting an attack on a businessman in Cyprus.
The alleged assassin, named as Yousef Shahabazi Abbasalilu, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, was filmed confessing to his role in the plot.
Israeli media said he was to have liaised with Pakistani and other Iranian agents in northern Cyprus, a territory controlled by Turkey, before crossing to the south to kill an Israeli businessman and to bomb a Chabad House, an Orthodox Jewish cultural centre.
