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Israeli intelligence services have warned that Iran is planning to stage an assassination attempt against Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, at a time when Syrian and Israeli officials are preparing to resume US-brokered talks in Paris on Tuesday, with the aim of reaching a security agreement.
According to Israeli military assessments, al-Sharaa is facing serious threats not only from Iran, but also from other hostile actors. Israeli military sources, quoted by the country's media, say that Tehran sees al-Sharaa as an obstacle to its influence in the region, due to its tendency to push Syria away from traditional allied orbits.
Syrian authorities have not publicly responded to the Israeli intelligence assessment of the alleged Iranian plot, made public on Monday. However, Syria's Interior Ministry denied rumors of an assassination attempt on al-Sharaa last weekend, calling the claims "completely false" and warning against forged documents attributed to official sources.
Al-Sharaa has previously been the target of several assassination attempts since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's longtime dictator, through a surprise military offensive that brought about the collapse of the regime in Damascus.
In November 2025, Syrian authorities had thwarted two separate plots by the Islamic State terrorist group that targeted al-Sharaa.
Furthermore, the American envoy, Tom Barrack, has warned that the life of the interim Syrian president is increasingly threatened by his closeness to the West.
Meanwhile, to send a clear message that he is alive and in control, al-Sharaa appeared publicly on Monday evening in central Damascus, shopping in the Mazzeh neighborhood and using the new Syrian banknotes – a symbolic signal to the people and his opponents.
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