Israel on Monday said it had uncovered an Iranian network that had planned to attack a pipeline carrying ​crude oil from Azerbaijan to the Mediterranean as ‌well as Israeli and Jewish targets in Azerbaijan.

In a joint statement, the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence agencies said a plan by Iran's Islamic ​Revolutionary Guard Corps to attack the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline through ​Georgia to Turkey several weeks ago had been thwarted.