Claim of the New York Times: Kidnapping of two generals of the Israeli Labor Corps.
In its futile search for Ron Arad (the pilot who disappeared in 1986), Israel kidnapped and killed Iranian officials based on a false hypothesis.
Alireza Asgari, former Deputy Minister of Defense of Iran, was kidnapped in Istanbul in 2006. He was interrogated for weeks and after being assured of his innocence, he was killed and his body thrown into the sea.
In 2021, Abdullah Zabri, another Iranian official, was kidnapped in Damascus and taken to Israel.