The escalating hostilities between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Middle East have come down to allegations of sponsoring terrorism in Nigeria and a strong rebuttal.
It started with the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, who during an interview with Arise News, alleged that Tehran is actively masterminding terrorism within Nigeria and across Europe.
He referenced the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as a proxy backed by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, warning that Iran’s “entire apparatus” is dedicated to spreading terror and destabilising sovereign nations to export its revolutionary extremism.
In a swift retort, the Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria, Gholamreza Mahdavi Raja, dismissed these claims as “entirely unfounded” and a product of a desperate propaganda campaign.
Raja argued that the Israeli allegations are a strategic smokescreen designed to deflect global attention from Israel’s own record of “state terrorism.”
He pointed out that it is Israel, not Iran, that has a documented history of violating international law through the targeted assassination of scientists and political figures on foreign soil.
The Israeli envoy however claimed that Iran’s reach extends far beyond the Middle East, with documented terror operations in Argentina, Bulgaria, and now West Africa.
He justified the ongoing military offensive against Iran, which recently claimed the life of the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a “moral obligation” to prevent a nuclear-armed Tehran from wiping his country off the global map.
According to him, the strikes are a necessary response to 47 years of Iranian aggression and an effort to dismantle a regime that he asserts has massacred tens of thousands of its own citizens.
