{"id":35545,"date":"2022-05-31T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=35545"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:18:10","slug":"israel-warns-against-travel-to-turkey-amid-real-threat-of-iranian-revenge-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/israel-warns-against-travel-to-turkey-amid-real-threat-of-iranian-revenge-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel warns against travel to Turkey amid \u2018real threat\u2019 of Iranian revenge attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israel on Monday issued an updated travel warning for Turkey amid fears of an Iranian response to the assassination of a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an unusual move, the National Security Council explicitly identified \u201cIranian terrorist operatives\u201d as being the source of the threat to Israelis in Turkey and nearby countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former national security adviser Giora Eiland told Channel 12 news that this likely indicated that Israel was aware of a specific Iranian plot, rather than acting out of more general assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, however, the travel warning for Turkey remained at its same level, third of four, a \u201cmoderate threat,\u201d with recommendations to avoid visiting the country for nonessential reasons. At level four, \u201chigh threat,\u201d Israelis are explicitly told not to visit the country and to leave if they are already inside. Countries with this warning include Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei was shot five times in his car by two unidentified gunmen on motorbikes in the middle of Tehran. He reportedly was involved in killings and abductions outside of Iran, including attempts to target Israelis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor several weeks now, and even more so since Iran blamed Israel<\/a> for the death of the Revolutionary Guards officer last week, there has been growing concern in the defense establishment about Iranian attempts to harm Israeli targets around the world,\u201d a statement from the National Security Council said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Security Council said it was \u201csharpening\u201d the travel warning to Turkey, stressing that the country and other nations bordering Iran pose \u201ca high level of risk to Israelis these days.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security officials said the warnings follow \u201creal threats to Israelis\u201d in Turkey, which they did not specify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRecently a number of attempts have been made to harm businesspeople in the area and workers in the Israeli consulate,\u201d the NSC said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIsraeli citizens must remain vigilant and adhere to the necessary precautions when traveling to one of these countries,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This included recommending that Israelis keep emergency contact numbers handy, refrain from sharing information with foreigners about their military service, and avoid \u201caccentuating their Israeli identity\u201d in public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian authorities have yet to pin down the suspects in Khodaei\u2019s killing, even though the incident took place in the heart of one of the most secure areas in Tehran \u2014 Mohahedin-e Eslam Street, home to other senior officials in the IRGC and its elite Quds Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel, which has not officially commented on the incident, reportedly raised the security alert level at its embassies and consulates around the world, fearing a retaliatory Iranian attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel on Monday issued an updated travel warning for Turkey amid fears of an Iranian response to the assassination of a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last week. In an unusual move, the National Security Council explicitly identified \u201cIranian terrorist operatives\u201d as being the source of the threat to Israelis in Turkey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":31141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/RPLANE-e1628880449240.png?fit=700%2C514&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35546,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35545\/revisions\/35546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}