Iran’s Terror Network Comes to New York: Hezbollah Commander Charged in Plot to Murder Jews on U.S. Soil

Trump’s FBI Trump FBI just thwarted a huge Iran-backed terrorist plot targeting Jewish sites across the US, Canada, and Europe.

An Iran-backed militia commander was arrested and charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the U.S., including one in New York. Prosecutors say
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran.

IRGC operative Mohammad al-Saadi is reported to be behind planning and financing the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, as well as many other attacks on Jews, globally. He is in custody and facing life in prison. (CBS)

Photo: Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, right, pictured with Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander killed in a US strike in 2020

🚨 JUST IN: Trump FBI just FOILED a MASSIVE Iran-backed terrorist plot targeting Jewish sites across the US, Canada, and Europe!

Islamist thug Mohammad al-Saadi, commander of Kataib Hezbollah, had 20+ ATTACKS planned, including one right here in New York.

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Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, was charged with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi was transferred into U.S. custody overseas and transported to the United States.
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ADIC Barnacle: “In the span of just three months, Mohammad Al-Saadi allegedly directed 18 terrorist attacks throughout Europe—including against United States citizens and interests—and planned to conduct a similar attack here in our country. The FBI New York’s Joint Terrorism Task Force maintains its unwavering resolve to hold accountable leaders of foreign terrorist organizations who utilize mass fear and suffering to further their anti-American agenda.”

Earlier today, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization, was charged with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic… pic.twitter.com/A3oDgpAswu

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Iraqi militia commander charged in US for plotting attacks on Jewish targets for Iran
US prosecutors say Mohammad Al-Saadi, a Kataeb Hezbollah member and IRGC operative, coordinated recent attacks in Western countries claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya

By Luke Tress and Agencies, Times of Israel, May 16, 2026:

The US Justice Department on Friday announced the arrest of a senior Iraqi militia commander for terrorism against Jewish targets on behalf of Iran since the outbreak of the recent war with the United States and Israel.

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a member of the Kataeb Hezbollah terrorist group and an operative of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, plotted close to 20 attacks in the US, Europe and Canada, prosecutors said.

According to the complaint, Al-Saadi and unnamed associates planned, coordinated and claimed responsibility for the attacks in the name of Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, a component of Kataeb Hezbollah, since late February.

Al-Saadi, 32, was extradited to the US from abroad and appeared in a federal court in New York City, where he smiled throughout his initial appearance but did not speak.

He allegedly planned attacks on “US and Israeli interests and to kill Americans and Jews in the US and abroad,” said Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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Attacks linked to al-Saadi include arson against a synagogue in North Macedonia, the stabbing of two Jewish men last month in London, the bombing of a Bank of New York Mellon building in Amsterdam in mid-March and a thwarted bomb attack on a Bank of America office in Paris on March 28, the complaint said. Teenage suspects were previously arrested in both cases.

The Amsterdam attack caused a fire and significant damage to the building, but no injuries, according to local media reports. It followed an explosion outside a Jewish school in Amsterdam, which Al-Saadi celebrated on Snapchat with an Ashab al-Yamin-branded video showing the blast and the assailants fleeing on a motorcycle, the criminal complaint said.

In Paris, police found a homemade bomb consisting of a gasoline-filled container taped to a powerful firework. Forensic experts said the device contained 650 grams (about 23 ounces) of explosives and that it could have produced a large fireball and ignited a significant blaze.

This month and last month, Al-Saadi allegedly attempted terror attacks against Jewish institutions in New York, the Justice Department said.

In communication with an undercover officer, he shared photos of a prominent Jewish synagogue in New York, and two Jewish institutions in California and Arizona, directing the officer to attack the targets. A warrant for his arrest was issued after he allegedly gave the officer a $3,000 down payment to conduct the New York Attack.

The Justice Department did not name the specific targets. The Community Security Initiative, a group that coordinates security for Jewish institutions in the New York region, said in a bulletin that it has been in contact since last month with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force about the plot against the New York synagogue.

Al-Saadi was charged with six counts of terrorism-related offenses, including providing material support to Kataeb Hezbollah and the IRGC, conspiring and providing material support for acts of terrorism and conspiring to bomb a place of public use. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

FBI Director Kash Patel described Al-Saadi as a “high-value target responsible for mass global terrorism” and said his arrest was the product of “a righteous mission executed brilliantly” by the agency’s agents and law enforcement partners.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, whose officers investigated Al-Saadi as part of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, said the case “puts into stark relief the global threats posed by the Iranian regime and its proxies like Kataeb Hezbollah.”

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