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Iran has been linked to a series of attacks in London (Image: Getty)
Two Iranian intelligence agents accused of plotting a string of terror attacks in the UK wanted to get hold of missiles and drones, prosecutors believe. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi and Mohsen Mohajeri wanted to get hold of the deadly weapons from โcontactsโ in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
And the US Department of Justice said the pair, as well as Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, were โpersonally involvedโ in planning โmanyโ terror attacks in Europe. Al-Hassani and Mohajeri insisted “we need to get focused on London” and helped create propaganda videos showing successful conspiracies.
US prosecutors said: โIn early March 2026, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi and Mohsen Mohajeri, the defendants, began plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe.
โTo do so, al-Saadi and Mohajeri, who was officially a member of the IRGC from at least in or about 2004, discussed procuring drones and missiles from Mohajeri’s IRGC contacts and broader network in Iran.โ
Attacks on synagogues, the targeting of two Jewish men in Golders Green and the arson attack on Hatzola ambulances were all allegedly plotted by the trio.
And the US Department of Justice laid bare the networkโs web of terror.
It said: โAl-Saadi, Mohajeri, and Al-Hassani were allegedly personally involved in planning many of the European Terrorist Attacks, and al-Saadi and Mohajeri helped create and publish online propaganda videos of these attacks.
โFor example, on or about April 6, Mohajeri and al-Hassani planned attacks while together in a room in Iraq with a map of London displayed on a computer screen.
โIn a video of that meeting, al-Hassani told Mohajeri, ‘we need to get focused on London’.”
In April, al-Saadi, al-Hassani and Mohajeri, along with other unnamed individuals, were in a room together on a FaceTime call with an attacker who was firebombing a Jewish charity in London.
Al-Hassani gave the firebomber instructions as the alleged conspirators watched him carry out the attack projected onto a large screen.
A day later, al-Hassani held a video call with an individual who was attacking a London synagogue, according to the indictment.
Al-Hassani told the assailant to โlight it up like a Christmas tree.โ The individual then lit an explosive and threw it at the building.
Iran was also linked to a knife attack in Golders Green (Image: Getty)
After the attacks, the network allegedly distributed the footage as propaganda, the indictment said.
Al-Saadi, 32, is alleged to have conspired and urged other people for nearly a decade to commit violent attacks against the US and its citizens โon behalf of terrorist organisations, including multiple global terror proxies for the Iranian regimeโ.
The trio have also been linked to the alleged terror plot targeting RAF Fairford.
The US Department of Justice said al-Saadi allegedly sent โcoded messagesโ in calls from his prison cell to his family to give instructions to the other men plotting the RAF Fairford attack in September.
US officials allege al-Hassani, a dual Iranian Iraqi national, and Iranian Mohsen Mohajeri used โa network of contacts in the United Kingdomโ to orchestrate the Fairford plot from Iran.
Mr al-Hassani wanted his associates in the UK to impersonate a fuel delivery company and communicated with the van drivers tasked with the alleged RAF Fairford plot.
When two of the three vans were encountered at a security roadblock, they were diverted away from their intended route.
The US Department of Justice added: โThat day, al-Hassani was in frequent communication with the van drivers, helping to coordinate their movements and directing them where to drive. At least two of the three vans, while en route to the perimeter of RAF Fairford, encountered a security roadblock and were not allowed to proceed on their intended route.
โAl-Hassani communicated with the drivers and occupants of the vans both before and after encountering the security checkpoint. In the early morning hours of Sept. 27, law enforcement authorities in the United Kingdom recovered three white vans to which the fuel delivery business logos were affixed and arrested the occupants.โ