Israel Matzav

Iran planned to bomb synagogue in Sofia

According to a report by an American think tank, within days after the terrorist attack at Burgas, Bulgaria last summer, Bulgarian authorities caught personnel of Iran's Qods Force militia staking out a synagogue in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.

According to a 2013 Washington Institute for Near East Policy report titled Hizballah and the Qods Force in Iran’s Shadow War with the West, “within days after the explosion in Burgas — while the investigation into the bombing and the search for accomplices was at its height — Bulgarian authorities reportedly caught a Qods Force operative scoping out a synagogue in the country’s capital.”

Israeli intelligence officials disclosed the Qods Force surveillance of the Sofia synagogue to the report’s author, Dr. Matthew Levitt, a leading authority on Hezbollah and director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute.

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Asked about the surveillance and arrest of an Iranian Qods force operative in Sofia, Dimitar Yaprakov, a Bulgarian foreign ministry spokesman, answered the Post by email on Monday that “you may address [your questions] to the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria.”

In response to a Post query, a press spokesperson from the Interior Ministry wrote “Such kind of information does not fall within the scope of the competence of MoI, it falls within the competences of SANS, the State Agency for National Security.”

A spokeswoman for SANS told the Post by phone that the security agency would work on a reply.

 Maybe Iran should also be named a designated terror organization.

Labels: Bulgaria, Hezbullah, Iran, Islamic terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:30 PM