The US has blamed Iran for planning the assassination of Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, deeming the threat “the latest instance of Iran’s dangerous activities abroad.”
A US government sources reported that the operation was orchestrated by the Quds Force, the foreign operations unit of the IRGC, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ elite forces operation section. The plan was developed in late 2024, before the operation was thwarted in the early part of the current year, sources said.
“The plot was thwarted and there is no current threat,” said the official, who requested anonymity. “This is yet another instance of the Iranian regime’s global campaign of deadly targeting, whether that target be the Iranian ambassador, the journalist corps, the dissident communities, or anyone who stands in opposition to their regime,”
The Iranian delegation to the U.N. has refrained from making any comments on the claim.
US intelligence circles have long pointed out the Iranian activity in Latin America, with the Iranian government reportedly having created a network of political and logistical allies south of the US border, utilizing their strong connections with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, among others, to expand their presence there without being sanctioned.
The alleged plan was the result of a chain of violent reprisals between Israel and Iran, starting from the Israeli airstrike on Iran’s embassy complex located inside Damascus, the capital of Syria, on April 1, 2024, which resulted in the death of several IRGC commanders.
Shortly thereafter, Iran conducted attacks on Israel by firing missiles and drones into the country, followed by Israel launching a massive air campaign across the entire nation of Iran in early 2025, with the reported death toll over 1,000 from the retaliation, which also included parts of Iran’s nuclear facilities, backed by US forces, apparently involved in the operation.
Iran, continuing to be one of the main financiers of the likes of Hamas, has also long been suspected of launching or sponsoring attacks elsewhere in the world. European intelligence agencies have even implicated the IRGC Quds Force in assassination plots on the European mainland, in the Middle East, and even Latin America.
The Australian government recently expelled the Iranian ambassador due to alleged involvement in two arson attacks, one on the Melbourne synagogue and another on the kosher restaurant in Sydney, according to Israeli intelligence sources who believe the attacks are part of an organized campaign to assault Jewish-Israeli targets throughout the world.
Latin America also has its own history of violent incidents linked to the Middle East. There was the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center, known as the AMIA, in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people died, with Argentina and Israel laying the blame on the Lebanese group Hezbollah, working on behalf of the Iranian government, for the bombing.
The second country is Mexico, which has maintained Jewish and Muslim minorities throughout its history, with a long-standing non-interventionist foreign policy posture. Although the country has supported an international probe into alleged Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza, its government has refrained from cutting off ties with the Israeli state, unlike other Latin American governments with more intense positions against Israel.
The U.S. has made no other statements or presented any other evidence of the alleged assassination plot, but the threat indicates the escalating fear of Iran’s secret activities taking place around the world.
The world is witnessing the intensification of the global “shadow” war between Iran and Jerusalem due to the Israeli war in Gaza spreading throughout the Middle East, with Iran’s allies also hitting Western interests.
“Iran is no longer fighting Israel just in the Middle East,” one US official said, “it’s exporting its war to the world.”
