Israeli police said they had arrested seven Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem who planned to assassinate an Israeli scientist and a city mayor on orders from Iran, AFP reports.
“The Shin Bet and the Central Investigations Unit of the Jerusalem district police arrested seven residents from the Beit Safafa neighbourhood in Jerusalem,” the police said in a statement.
“These individuals, under Iranian direction, planned to assassinate a senior Israeli scientist and a mayor of a major Israeli city.”
