JPost -- Iran plotted to carry out a terror attack on an Israeli ship as it passed through Egypt's Suez Canal, a report in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram said Friday.
According to the report, two Egyptian terror operatives confessed to receiving instructions and funds from Iranian handlers ahead of the planned attack.
The two suspects have been named as Suleiman Razak and Ahmed Salama, Channel 2 said, citing the Egyptian report.
The suspects allegedly planned to recruit a third member to their cell, and were supposed to received 50 million Egyptian pounds to carry out the plan.
The report comes after a series of failed attacks on Israeli targets in India, Thailand, and Georgia, all of which have been linked to Tehran.
On Friday, India's NDTV news site said New Delhi requested that Interpol issue Red Corner warrants against four Iranians, one of whom was arrested by Malaysian police at Kuala Lumpur airport.
Earlier this month, the New Delhi police chief said a fifth suspect, an Indian-Muslim journalist with ties to Iran, carried out reconnaissance ahead of the February attack, which seriously injured Tal Yehoshua Koren, the wife of an Israeli defense attache to India.
