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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/world/africa/iran-ethiopia-plot.html
Iran Eyes New Targets in Africa
(New York Times) Declan Walsh - Ethiopia recently uncovered a cell of 15 people it said were casing the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, along with a cache of weapons and explosives. American and Israeli officials say the operation was the work of Iran, whose intelligence service activated a sleeper cell in Addis Ababa last fall with orders to gather intelligence also on the embassies of the U.S. and Israel. They say the Ethiopian operation was part of a wider drive to seek soft targets in African countries. Ethiopia's National Intelligence and Security Service said a second group of plotters had been preparing to hit the Emirati Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. A senior U.S. defense official linked the arrests in Ethiopia to a failed Iranian plan to kill the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, which was reported by Politico in September.