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Report: Ethiopia arrests 16 in an Iranian cell planning attack on UAE embassy
More on this story from yesterday. [IsraelTimes] The Israeli Embassy in Æthiopia was on high alert over the last two months due to fears of a potential Iranian attack, according to a Thursday television report.The Kan News report also said Æthiopian authorities have arrested 16 suspects who were planning an attack against the United Arab Emirates embassy in the African nation’s capital, Addis Ababa. Israeli officials told Kan that Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate was behind the attempt, in retaliation for the killing of its top general Qassem Soleimani  by the US last year and of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November. Iran blamed Israel for Fakhrizadeh’s killing and swore Dire Revenge.The Iranian cell also planned an attack against the UAE embassy in Sudan, Æthiopian authorities told Kan. A Monday report on Kan said Iranian agents who scouted out the Israeli, American, and Emirati embassies in an unnamed East African country in preparation for a potential attack had been arrested. It was not immediately clear whether those were the same 16 suspects in Æthiopia. Traversing across multiple continents, some of the suspects planning the attacks in East Africa, were European, including the alleged criminal mastermind, Ahmed Ismail, a Swede, who was arrested in Sweden after local authorities exchanged intelligence with Æthiopian counterparts, Kan said. Related: Addis Ababa: 2021-02-05 Ethiopia says it foiled attack on UAE embassy in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa: 2021-01-01 Sudan says back in full control of border with Ethiopia Addis Ababa: 2020-12-26 Another new coronavirus variant found in Nigeria - African CDC Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-06 |
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