Israeli police said Tuesday they had arrested seven residents of east Jerusalem on suspicion of planning to assassinate an Israeli scientist and a city mayor on orders from Iran. “The Shin Bet and the Central Investigations Unit of the Jerusalem district police arrested seven residents from the Beit Safafa neighbourhood in Jerusalem,” the police said in a statement. “These individuals, under Iranian direction, planned to assassinate a senior Israeli scientist and a mayor of a major Israeli city.” Police alleged that the group was also tasked with bombing a police car and throwing a grenade at …