Cyprus Believes Iran Isn’t Behind Attempted Attack on Israelis, Report Says

• Cyprus Believes Iran Isn’t Behind Attempted Attack on Israelis, Report Says
  by https://www.haaretz.com/
  While a statement from Bennett’s office earlier this week tied Iran to the suspected attack on Israeli businesspeople on the island, Cypriot officials played down concerns that Tehran was involved
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  Cypriot authorities do not believe Iran was not behind the recent alleged attack on Israeli businesspeople on the island despite Israeli accusations of Iranian involvement, Cypriot media reported on Wednesday.
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  According to a report on the In-Cyprus website, officials in Nicosia also doubt that Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi was the target of the attempted attack, but rather other officials at his gambling firm in Cyprus.
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  On Monday, following the arrest of the suspect, who was in possession of a weapon, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office released a statement on behalf of defense officials characterizing the incident as an Iranian terrorist attack on Israeli businesspeople on the island. The Iranian embassy in Nicosia called the claim “baseless.”
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  According to the Alphanews website, the would-be assassin was a 38-year-old Azerbaijani citizen who holds a Russian passport. According to Cypriot media, the Azeri led the investigators to two locations in the town of Ayia Napa where he said that he had rented the two cars. Investigators found a gun with a silencer in one of the vehicles.
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