Alwaght- The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Tel Aviv provided Denmark and other European states with intelligence about what he called “Iranian plots” on the European soil.
On Thursday, he said the Israelis told their European allies about “Iranian plots to carry out attacks on European soil.”
He made the remarks during a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart in Sofia.
The remarks follow the recent accusations by Denmark and Belgium against Iran. The two European states recently accused Tehran of planning an assassination in Denmark.
The Iranian officials categorically rejected the claims, saying that the accusations served an agenda to put strains on the Islamic Republic. They further said that the allegations were forged by Iran-Europe relations’ enemies.
Netanyahu has long been campaigning in Europe and the US for pressures against Tehran. Netanyahu says that the Iranian presence in Syria is dangerous to Tel Aviv.
Iran is present in Syria at the behest of the Syrian government, and crucially helped the Damascus campaign against the terrorists. In September the Syrian forces recaptured southern parts of the country from the foreign-backed terrorists who for over three years created a buffer zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights.
What happened between Iran and Denmark?
Earlier on Tuesday, the Danish intelligence chief Finn Birch Anderson stated that a Norwegian citizen of Iranian roots was arrested on October 21 on the charges of helping an “unspecified” intelligence service to carry out an assassination in Denmark.
Denmark recalled its ambassador from Tehran shortly later and called for new sanctions against Iran, claiming that the target was the European-based leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for Liberation of Ahvaz, a Western-shielded separatist group blacklisted by Iran as a terrorist group for carrying out terror attacks in the south of the country in the early 2000s.
The Foreign Ministry of Iran summoned the Danish envoy to Tehran to express “rash and politicized” remarks by Denmark's officials about thwarting an assassination plot by Iranian intelligence in the European country.
Anti-Iranian pressure campaign
Netanyahu is an anti-Iranian campaigner. He takes every chance to get Iran squeezed by sanctions. Over the past few years, he went to great lengths to draw international pressures on the Islamic Republic. He staged many shows in the general assembly and national television and online to demonize Iran.
The latest show came during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly when he accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse” in an industrial park in Tehran suburbs. He showed an image of what he claimed to be the warehouse's door. But it turned to be a carpet washing factory.
His largely hilarious comments ignited a social media trend, with many saying he must have been “fooled” by his agents because the site was a simple carpet washing factory.
The pressures on Tehran come as the US President Donald Trump intends to re-impose sanctions as a realization to his promise after he pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran in early May.
The 2015 nuclear pact was signed between Iran and six world powers– US, China, Russia, Germany, France, and Britain.
