Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the US-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter said.
The weapons were sent by Iran-backed militias in Syria to a Muslim Brotherhood cell in Jordan linked to the military wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, the people said. The cache was seized when members of the cell, Jordanians of Palestinian descent, were arrested in late March, they said.
The alleged plot and arrests, reported here for the first time, come at a time of skyrocketing tensions in the Middle East, with American-backed Israel at war in the Gaza Strip with Hamas, part of Iran’s ‘Axis’. of Resistance’. network of proxy groups built up over decades to oppose Israel.
