By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
JERUSALEM/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Israeli embassies are on high alert amid concerns they will be targeted by Iran, which vowed revenge for Israel’s alleged assassination of the senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who led the IRGC, was killed with six other people, including another Iranian general, when Israeli warplanes destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, sources said.
Besides security measures at embassies, some Israeli ambassadors were asked not to arrive at public events over fears for their security following Monday’s strike, officials said.
It came while Bulgarian police found a cache of weapons that members of Iran-backed Hamas, deemed a terrorist group by Israel, wanted to use against Jewish targets in Europe, officials said.
Four people previously arrested in the Netherlands and Germany were said to be involved in the scheme.
Yet despite the tensions, Israel denied claims it withdrew its ambassadors and evacuated its embassies in multiple locations worldwide after consultations between the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Israel’s Shin Bet security service.
On October 8, one day after Hamas launched its massacre of southern Israel last year, embassies across the world were also notified of concrete threats to their security.
Those threats materialized in some embassies, with a staffer at the Israeli embassy in Beijing being assaulted on October 13, Israeli sources said. The staffer was hospitalized “in stable condition,” Israeli media reported.
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