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Iran has dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday, days after Israeli media accused him of being behind an alleged Iranian plot to kill or abduct Israeli tourists in Turkey. The station gave no reason for the change, but said Taeb had been appointed…
Iranian state media did not give a reason but state TV said Taeb would become an adviser to the Guards' Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami.
One of the alleged targets was the former Israeli ambassador and his wife who were staying at a hotel in Istanbul.
Turkey has detained eight suspects allegedly working for an Iranian intelligence cell that planned to assassinate Israeli tourists in Istanbul, according to local media reports. The eight, who are not...