\nAn Israeli military operative engaged in surveillance mission (illustrative) (credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
If in the past, the Mossad and Shin Bet have helped foreign countries like Azerbaijan and others to foil Iranian terror plots, this time the plots of the rank and file terrorists were being thwarted at the same time as their top managers in Iran were being killed by the Israeli air force during the war.<\/p>\n
Typically, the IDF is not mentioned in these kinds of overseas operations.<\/p>\n
Usually, those terror handlers in Iran, who were struck by the IDF, might be untouchable as compared to the rank-and-file terrorists in the field.<\/p>\n
Israel pushes to address Iran terror network in negotiations<\/h3>\n In addition, with US-Iran negotiations still wide open, this could have been an opportunity for Israel to remind the US and other nations, who might influence the negotiations, that Iran’s sponsorship of a global terror network should be dealt with during talks, and not ignored.<\/p>\n
In a video statement, Azerbaijan said it had \u201cprevented terrorist acts and intelligence operations in Azerbaijan organized by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\u201d<\/p>\n
Another target of the Iranians had been the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which runs through Georgia and Turkey.<\/p>\n
According to the joint Israeli defense agencies’ statement, the Iranian plotters smuggled explosive drones into Azerbaijan and collected intelligence on potential targets.<\/p>\n
Arresting the local terror agents helped uncover the identities of the rest of the network as well as their handlers back in Iran.<\/p>\n
Special Operations Division (4000) within the IRGC intelligence Chief Rahman Moqadam managed the network and was killed at the start of the recent war.<\/p>\n
He served under senior IRGC intelligence official Majid Khademi, whom Israel also killed during the war.<\/p>\n
Moqadam trained and recruited spies and operatives inside and outside of Iran, assigning them to collect intelligence regarding Israeli political and diplomatic officials, Israeli defense officials, and Israeli and Western military installations, ports, and Israeli ships around the world.<\/p>\n
A key operator for Moqadam and also part of Division 4000 was Mohsen Suri.<\/p>\n
Suri traveled physically to meet with terror cells globally, which were part of the network, but he was also killed during the war, along with a number of other Iranian intelligence officials, at an IRGC safehouse uncovered by the Mossad.<\/p>\n
Mahdi Yekeh-Dehghan, \u201cthe Doctor,\u201d was another key player for the network in Azerbaijan and in other parts of the Middle East.<\/p>\n
He was exposed in January when Turkey arrested several people, including an Iranian national, on espionage charges<\/p>\n
Yekeh-Deghan and his network smuggled explosive drones from Iran to Turkey to Cyprus, and collected intelligence on American military units at the Incirlik base.<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Monday announced that terrorists, mostly or all with Iranian backing, have targeted over 30 Israeli embassies since October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
In the wake of the US-Israeli wars against Iran in June 2025 and the most recent ones, the IRGC has invested all new efforts to build terror cells for carrying out attacks abroad.<\/p>\n
Saar said Iran “spreads chaos and terror throughout the world.”<\/p>\n
He specifically noted two recent attempts to strike Israeli officials in the UAE using explosive drones as well as another deadly plot by a different terror cell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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