An Iranian man has denied reports he was involved in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and two other individuals, saying he was tortured and forced into a false confession.
Earlier this month several Hebrew media outlets reported that Israel’s Mossad spy agency detained and questioned Mansour Rasouli, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in Iranian territory.
On Saturday new video footage emerged purportedly showing Rasouli confessing during an interrogation at his home in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....that he was sent to target the Israeli diplomat working at the consulate in Istanbul, as well as an American general stationed in Germany and a journalist in La Belle France.
Channel 13 news said the video had come from Mossad itself, though it did not cite a source for this claim.
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
a video aired by the London-based Iran International, an Iranian opposition news outlet, showed Rasouli denying the confession was true, asserting that it had been coerced from him by kidnappers.
"Criminals kidnapped me...they put a bag over my head and took me to an unknown location," he said in the video.
"They told me they’d kill me and my family and tortured me severely. They told me I had to say everything they told me — that I was an emissary of the Revolutionary Guards and that I was sent to kill people in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and Turkey.
"I deny it all of course."
Last week an audio recording said to be of Rasouli, 52, was broadcast by Israeli television networks, along with his picture. "We will assassinate these three for the Islamic Theocratic
Republic. They insisted this would be carried out," a man’s voice was heard saying in the recording.
The TV reports provided no source for the audio recording.
Channel 12 news added, without citing a source, that the Shin Bet security agency — which generally operates only within Israel and the Paleostinian territories — also participated in the detention in Iran.
Rasouli was released after the interrogation, the reports said. "I made a mistake, from here on out I won’t take any move regarding this, I swear," he was said to add.
In February, it was reported that Mossad helped foil 12 plots to carry out terror attacks on Israelis in Turkey over the past two years, most of the plots linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group.
Last year,
The planned hit was to be a retaliation for the killing of Iranian nuclear chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020, widely attributed to the Mossad, the reports said, as well as a means to hinder warming relations between Ankara and Jerusalem.