A U.S. official has disclosed to the Daily Mail that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps devised a plan to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to Mexico. This plot, targeting Einat Kranz Neiger, was reportedly conceived at the end of 2024 and remained active into the first half of this year. By late 2024, Western intelligence agencies had uncovered this scheme, allegedly linked to Hasan Izadi, a senior officer in Iran’s Quds Force. The Quds Force serves as the overseas branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, managing foreign operations and supporting allied militias throughout the Middle East, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

According to investigators, Izadi, who also uses the alias Masood Rahnema, was orchestrating an effort to assassinate the Israeli ambassador while acting as a double agent. He had been stationed as the second adviser at Iran’s embassy in Venezuela, a position that U.S. and allied officials now believe was a front for conducting lethal operations against American and Israeli targets. During his tenure in Caracas, Izadi reportedly maintained regular communications with Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon.

Intelligence documents reviewed by the Daily Mail reveal that Izadi traveled extensively through Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, establishing a network of informants and facilitators throughout Latin America. The Quds Force is integral to Iran’s military and intelligence strategies abroad, exerting its influence in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. “This is merely the latest in a long series of Iran’s global attempts to target diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and anyone who opposes them, a matter of grave concern for every nation with an Iranian presence,” the U.S. official, who requested anonymity, told the Daily Mail.

The source tells the Daily Mail the plot was contained and does not pose a threat at this time. Kranz Neiger remains in Mexico City in her role as ambassador. Izadi is alive and still in Iran, according to US intelligence. Since the 1979 revolution, the IRGC has become the main instrument of the Iranian regime’s hidden operation. Over the past four decades it has been linked to dozens of assassination plots in Europe, The Middle East and America.

The IRGC has been implicated in several recent murder‑for‑hire plots targeting high-profile US officials. Federal prosecutors say that in September 2024, the IRGC asked Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national living in Iran to assassinate President Trump. Iran has denied this. Another high‑profile case fell apart in New York: federal prosecutors in March 2025 convicted two Eastern European organized‑crime figures for their involvement in a murder-plot to kill outspoken anti-regime Iranian‑American journalist Masih Alinejad.

According to court documents, the Iranian government paid roughly $500,000 and enlisted a network of operatives to surveil and target Alinejad. In August 2022, US prosecutors charged Iranian national Shahram Poursafi for arranging a $300,000 payment to have former National Security Adviser John Bolton killed, allegedly in retaliation for the January 2020 US strike that killed IRGC‑QF commander Qasem Soleimani.