In the quiet architecture of statecraft, Iran has escalated a campaign to eliminate senior Israeli officials — not through armies, but through criminal networks, aliases, and compartmentalized cells operating across borders. Israel's intelligence services, having dismantled one such plot involving operatives linked to France and Iran, have responded by drawing a tighter circle around their leadership, rerouting aircraft and expanding protective details. The episode reflects a broader shift in how states wage shadow conflict: less through their own hands, more through borrowed ones — a strategy
Iran Intensifies Assassination Plots Against Israeli Officials, Mossad Says
Potential threat to Israeli government officials and security personnel, though no casualties reported in this incident.