During one of his last interviews, the famous French philosopher told
Le Figaro
: “
only death will stop me
”.
Did he brush against it without knowing it?
According to the
Washington Post
, which publishes this Thursday a long investigation into Iranian abuses in the heart of the Western world, Bernard-Henri Lévy was the target of an assassination attempt orchestrated by the Al-Quds force, the unit of elite of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in Iran - the clandestine services of the ideological army of the Tehran regime.
According to information from the
Washington Post
, which says it has consulted "
government documents
" and interviewed "
around 15 American, European and Middle Eastern intelligence officials
", the Iranian government has intensified its plans to worrying proportions. assassination or kidnapping directed against Western personalities hostile to its interests, in particular activists or journalists.
Tehran has also recently reportedly targeted former top US leaders, as well as dissidents who fled the country.
Each time according to a process that is repeated: Iranian agents approach dealers and offer them a large sum of money in exchange for the execution of the crime.
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Among the targets, therefore, of these unsuccessful attempts would be former White House adviser John Bolton, Israeli businessmen who had stayed in Cyprus, and therefore also BHL.
Iranian special forces would have approached an Iranian dealer in Paris to charge him with the job, in exchange for 150,000 dollars for him and his accomplices.
The intellectual and journalist has never hidden his aversion for the government of the mullahs in Iran, and called again last October, in the columns of Le
Point
, for an "
emancipatory uprising
" in the streets of the country, shaken by a movement of unprecedented protest following the death of a young woman arrested by the regime's police.
It is not the first time that this assassination plan has been mentioned, but each time it has been covered up: thus last April, the Israeli media mentioned the existence of an Iranian plot aimed at eliminating , among other targets, "
a Jewish French journalist
".
The sum of 150,000 euros was already mentioned.
Quoting the renowned Israeli analyst Yossi Melman,
Le Figaro
then reported that the murder by Israel of an Iranian officer in May was linked to this assassination project, fanned by a hitman working for Colonel Khodayari, who was leading operations outside on behalf of Tehran.
The
Washington Post
also reports that a kidnapping attempt was foiled against Masih Alinejad, an American journalist of Iranian origin, also known for her commitment to human rights in Iran.