Photo of the arrested for plotting the murder of Netanyah is published, viewed as smiling

The photograph of an Israeli man arrested last month has been published after allegedly recruited by Iran to advance a plot to murder Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials.

Israeli Agency for Internal Security, Shin Bet, and Israeli police said in a joint statement that the suspect had twice gone to Iran through trafficking and had accepted payment to carry out missions on behalf of Tehran, reports the paper. “The Times of Israel”.

The 73-year-old suspect, identified as Motmann from the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, was officially charged Thursday, national broadcasting.

In a photograph published in Israeli media, he is seen smiling, unchained, sitting behind a restricted glass space while two security officers were standing next to him.