The Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced on Wednesday that they had thwarted an Iranian weapons-smuggling operation aimed at supplying terrorist operatives in Judea and Samaria.

“This shipment, like its predecessors, is part of an ongoing Iranian effort to destabilize security in the region by arming terror cells, whose goal is to carry out attacks against Israelis and IDF forces,” the IDF and Shin Bet said in a joint statement.

The seized cache was sent by Iran’s Unit 4000, the special operations division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Unit 840, a special operations unit of IRGC’s Quds Force, which has primarily operated out of Syria, according to the Shin Bet. Both units report to Asghar Bakri, head of Unit 840.

The smuggling

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