Iran is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse while searching for new targets on the African continent. Thus, a major terrorist attack that could have caused havoc in the Ethiopian capital was thwarted. The Iranian intelligence activated a sleeper cell in Addis Ababa last fall, with orders to collect intelligence on the Emirati, Israeli and American embassies in the Ethiopian capital. "These are baseless allegations only provoked by the Zionist regime’s malicious media," a spokeswoman for the Iranian embassy in Addis Ababa said. In other places in Africa, the newspaper wrote, Israeli intelligence frequently tips off friendly countries about suspected Iranian activity.

Source: Ethiopian News February 17, 2021 13:41 UTC