An ITV News investigation identified seven men behind an alleged Iranian terror network who operated from a control room in Baghdad to orchestrate attacks across Europe, including a foiled September plot against US B-1 bombers at Britain’s RAF Fairford. Working for Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, the group used AI generated propaganda and paid local criminals to carry out strikes “often without knowing whose instructions they were following,” ITV reported.
Details of the network emerged alongside an eight count US Justice Department indictment unsealed Tuesday that charged three operatives over the Fairford plot and nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks targeting Jewish communities and Western sites across Europe and the US. Federal prosecutors allege that Kataib Hezbollah commander Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, helped direct the Fairford operation while held in a Brooklyn federal jail on earlier terrorism charges, using coded phone calls to his mother and sister in Iraq to pass instructions and arrange funding, telling them on Sept 24 to “give him money so we can do it.”