According to the American newspaper, which cites sources from Western security agencies, Tehran is trying to hit targets in Paris, New York or London.
In an investigation uncovering the Iranian regime’s plans to silence its opponents abroad, the US newspaper Washington Post, citing “government documents officials” and “US, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials,” claims that the French philosopher and writer Bernard Henri-Lévy was the target of one of these operations.
Tehran reportedly paid an Iranian drug trafficker $150,000 to organize the assassination of BHL, who is also a columnist at Le Point. According to the American newspaper, Bernard Henri-Lévy was targeted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ special operations branch, Al-Quds Force, the regime’s armed wing abroad. Reached by the Washington Post, the philosopher declined to comment.
The French intellectual has drawn the ire of the Iranian regime by criticizing its policies of bloody repression and religious extremism on numerous occasions. The Al Quds force reportedly conducted a covert operation by hiring a drug dealer to recruit other Iranians with the aim of assassinating the French intellectual in Paris, to no avail. The newspaper does not specify when the facts happened, but notes that examples of assassination attempts on regime protesters abroad, whether Iranian or not, “have multiplied dramatically over the past two years.”
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