The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had allegedly crafted a plan to kill Pakistan's military chief Asim Munir and his delegation amid the US-Iran peace talks in Geneva, an analyst claimed on Tuesday.
The sensational claim, made by Brazilian journalist and geopolitical expert Pepe Escobar in conversation with political commentator and influencer Mario Nawfal, was, however, rejected by Pakistani journalists.
The claims come amid Pakistan's efforts to mediate the three-month-long war between Iran and the US, as a part of which high-level talks had taken place in Geneva.
The talks for the initial Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Geneva also saw top officials from both the US and Iran, such as Vice President J.D. Vance, and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
However, Escobar claimed that the sensational plan allegedly failed after Pakistan's military intelligence "intercepted" what he called "ultra-credible information", and fired back a warning through diplomatic intermediaries.
Claiming that the alleged intermediaries "could be Oman", he further quoted Pakistan's warning, citing a source.
"'If you touch our delegation, we're going to wipe you off the map, period' ... (This) is what our source told us," Escobar said.
This comes after Israel earlier rejected Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif's earlier claims against it, questioning how the country that made these claims could neutrally mediate the war.
Tel Aviv has also publicly voiced out its frustration against the US-Iran deal, as it continues to see the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon as a security threat.
How did Pakistan respond?
Multiple Pakistani journalists have rejected the viral claims, saying that these were "baseless and unsupported by facts".
Senior journalist Syed Talat Hussain wrote on an X post that there was "not a shred of truth" to Escobar's claims, as per a report from The Current, a news outlet based in Pakistan.
"This is utter nonsense ... Nothing of the sort ever occurred," he added, even citing a senior Pakistani security official who described the claim as "perverse propaganda".
