{"id":1511,"date":"2026-04-01T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:42:07","slug":"france-suspects-link-to-pro-iranian-group-in-foiled-paris-bomb-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/1511\/","title":{"rendered":"France suspects link to pro-Iranian group in foiled Paris bomb plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France suspects a pro-Iranian group known as HAYI to be behind a foiled attack on Bank of America\u2019s Paris offices, its anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday, while stressing the link has not yet been formally established.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">HAYI, which stands for Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or \u200cMovement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam, had posted a video on social media on March 23 targeting Jewish interests and communities in France and Europe, the prosecutor\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It added the video specifically named Bank of America\u2019s Paris headquarters in the French capital\u2019s 8th district.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn light of the aforementioned video targeting this US bank and the modus operandi observed in similar operations across several European countries, this attack \u2026 appears to be linked to the HAYI group, although this has not yet been formally established at \u2060this stage of the proceedings,\u201d the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The group \u2013 unknown until a spate of attacks across Europe on US, Israeli and Jewish targets for \u200cwhich it claimed responsibility \u2013 appears new.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A French police van is parked outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3fb15adb-a4c8-480a-9ead-2a90bea31adb_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"A French police van is parked outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\"\/>A French police van is parked outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Security sources say it appears to be using a model previously linked to Iran to recruit criminal groups or petty criminals to carry out attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France suspects a pro-Iranian group known as HAYI to be behind a foiled attack on Bank of America\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,606,73,5,607,65,1449,50,1445,1446,594,30,186,1447,1448],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-bank-of-america","tag-belgium","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-french","tag-germany","tag-hayi","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-jewish","tag-netherlands","tag-paris","tag-reuters","tag-u-s","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}