The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed an eight-count indictment charging three men with working for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Iraqi militia Kata’ib Hizballah in nearly 20 terrorist attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States, including a September plot against a British air base that housed American forces.
Three Iranian-backed operatives indicted for their roles in nearly 20 terrorist attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States: “As alleged, these defendants helped orchestrate a campaign of terror on behalf of terrorist organizations affiliated with Iran that targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, and the British military base, RAF Fairford, housing American service members,” said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald. “Even after one of their co-conspirators was arrested and placed in federal custody, the defendants allegedly continued coordinating terrorist activity through coded communications and a network of associates overseas. The threat presented by Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups to America and our allies is not hypothetical—it is very real. Our Office will not stop working to address and disrupt this threat, and to prosecute those responsible.” @TheJusticeDept @FBI @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @NYPDnews https://t.co/DSzCvAhIv0
— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) November 11, 2026
The same day, Iran released video of its top commanders touring a new underground missile base.
What the indictment says
The defendants are Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, an Iranian-Iraqi dual national; Mohsen Mohajeri, 48, an Iranian national and IRGC operative; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, 35, an Iraqi national. Prosecutors tie them to 18 attacks in Europe this spring claimed by a front group, seven of them in Britain. The attacks included arsons, explosives and a near-fatal stabbing of two Jewish men in London, one of them a dual U.S.-British citizen.
According to the Justice Department, al-Hassani directed an attacker on a London synagogue by video call in April, telling him to “light it up like a Christmas tree.” Al-Saadi is also accused of trying to attack a synagogue in Manhattan.
The department says that in September, al-Hassani paid associates to scout RAF Fairford and fill vans with barrels of fuel. At least two vans were stopped at a security roadblock on Sept. 26. Al-Saadi, held in New York since his arrest in May, allegedly passed coded messages through calls with his family, telling them days before the plot to “give him money so we can do it.”
“Anyone who plans a terrorist plot on a military base housing American servicemembers will be prosecuted by the United States government,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent.
Missiles underground, uranium kept
Iranian state media showed armed forces chief Ali Abdollahi and IRGC Aerospace Force commander Majid Mousavi touring the new facility at an undisclosed location, Iran International reported. “If the enemy makes another move against us, our response will extend beyond the region,” Abdollahi said.
On Wednesday, Iran’s top security official, Mohsen Rezaei, told the pro-Hezbollah outlet Al Mayadeen that Iran’s enriched uranium will never leave the country. “We have informed our Russian friends that the enriched material will remain in Iran, and we will use it ourselves,” he said.
Also on Wednesday, Iran’s army said an oil tanker struck a mine and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz after entering what Tehran calls a prohibited area.
The United States is keeping up the pressure. President Trump said Monday that the war is militarily effectively over but that the naval blockade stays.
The bottom line
Men tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are accused of directing attacks on Jewish targets in London in real time, plotting against a synagogue in New York and loading vans with fuel outside a base where American airmen served. One of them is accused of running the plot from a New York jail cell. That is the regime that now parades its missiles for the cameras and tells the world its uranium is staying put.
I am grateful to the FBI agents and prosecutors who built this case, and to the British authorities who stopped those vans. Every person who helped Iran plan these attacks should face an American courtroom.
This is also why the blockade and the pressure must stay in place. A government that sends killers after Jewish families and American servicemembers should not get one dollar of relief until it stops.