The U.S. accused three men of orchestrating attacks across Europe on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a London arson incident that was recorded for propaganda.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday says the broader campaign, targeting Jewish and American sites, included attacks on synagogues in Belgium, the Netherlands and London, and U.S. bank buildings in Amsterdam and Paris. It also included a stabbing in London that left two Jewish men seriously injured.
Prosecutors say the same network later plotted to attack RAF Fairford, a British air base used by U.S. bombers, with vans and what the plotters intended to be explosives. During the attack one suspect directed the vans toward the base by phone from Iran, while another, already jailed in New York, relayed coded instructions through calls with relatives.
The superseding indictment adds two defendants to a case against Mohammad al-Saadi, an alleged commander of the Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah who has been jailed in New York since May.
The additional defendants are Mohsen Mohajeri, whom prosecutors identify as an IRGC operative, and Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi who once lived in Britain. Both are at large and believed to be in Iran. All three face terrorism charges carrying potential life sentences.
