{"id":141824,"date":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/141824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:44:10","slug":"unmasked-tehran-terrorist-who-filmed-arson-on-london-synagogue-in-attacks-on-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/141824\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasked: ‘Tehran terrorist’ who filmed arson on London synagogue in attacks on Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Startling details have emerged of how alleged terrorists with strong links to Tehran<\/a> directed and filmed an arson<\/a> attack on a synagogue in London, according to US court documents.<\/p>\n

The arson was said to be part of a series of attacks on the capital\u2019s Jewish community<\/a> and other European targets in \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d being waged by Iranian<\/a> terror proxies.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department in Washington has announced an eight-count indictment charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi<\/a>, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, with terrorism-related offences after attacks and attempted attacks in Britain, other European countries and the US.<\/p>\n

\"Mohammad<\/p>\n

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi films an arson attack on a synagogue in London, according to a US indictment (US authorities)<\/p>\n

Al-Saadi, 32, is alleged to be a \u201clongtime operative\u201d of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and of Kata\u2019ib Hizballah and to have \u201cfurthered the terrorist<\/a> goals of those groups\u201d since around 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs alleged, in recent months, Al-Saadi has helped plan and direct approximately 18 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe on behalf of those terrorist organizations,\u201d the indictment adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose attacks were carried out in the name of a purportedly new terrorist group with the pseudonym Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya<\/a>, which is actually a front of Kata\u2019ib Hizballah and other US designated FTOs (foreign terrorist organisations).\u201d<\/p>\n

Two alleged \u201cattacks\u201d on London are detailed in the 35-page court document.<\/p>\n

The first is a video \u201con or about April 18\u201d when a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d was made against a London synagogue, which is not named.<\/p>\n

On the 18th, Kenton United Synagogue in Shaftsbury Avenue, Harrow, north London, was targeted in an arson attack<\/a>, believed to involve a petrol bomb.<\/p>\n

\"Al-Saadi<\/p>\n

Al-Saadi standing in front of an array of machine guns in a picture taken on or around February 12, 2024, according to the indictment (US Justice Department)<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old, a British national from Brent, has pleaded guilty to committing arson not endangering life and is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on 4 June.<\/p>\n

The video shows Al-Saadi and three or four other men on a FaceTime video call, says the indictment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe video call is projected onto a large screen against the background of the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyah logo,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cAl-Saadi is recording the attack through the call.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the video, one of the men, in English, instructs the individual on the other end of the call to execute the attack, directing that individual to take a lighter and \u2018light one in your hand,\u2019 \u2018light it\u2019 and \u2018throw the fourth one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The second London case highlighted is what appears to have been a propaganda video of an alleged drone attack on Israel\u2019s Embassy near Kensington High Street, west London.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOn or about April 14, Al-Saadi received on an encrypted messaging application videos of two men dressed in hazmat suits, with the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya logo taped to each suit, and a drone that appears to have two vials of white powder attached to it,\u201d say the US documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cScreenshots from these videos are shown below.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe content of these videos is consistent with the propaganda video that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya posted on Telegram on or about April 16, 2026, in which it claimed that its members had attacked the Israeli Embassy in London using drones that were loaded with dangerous carcinogenic and radioactive materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Men<\/p>\n

Men in hazmat suits and a drone allegedly used in a propaganda video of an \u2018attack\u2019 on Israel\u2019s Embassy in London which did not happen (US Justice Department)<\/p>\n

The attack did not take place.<\/p>\n

Al-Saadi is believed to have been arrested in Turkey in mid-May and to have been transferred into the FBI\u2019s custody before being flown to America.<\/p>\n

He is alleged to have waived his right to a lawyer and to have made a series of confessions about his links to the IRGC and its proxies, including Kata\u2019ib Hizballah.<\/p>\n

\u201cAl-Saadi\u2019s social media accounts and the Al-Saadi Phone also contain evidence of Al-Saadi\u2019s role in the planning, execution, and promotion of the European Terrorist Attacks,\u201d the indictment states.<\/p>\n

It adds that he was \u201cresponsible for media for Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya\u201d and that he had explained that the propaganda videos of the European Terrorist Attacks were part of \u2018psychological warfare\u2019 that \u201cthe resistance\u201d was waging against the US, designed to instill fear and terror in civilians.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police officers at the scene in Golders Green, north-west London, after two people were stabbed (Jamie Lashmar\/PA) (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

On the day of the Golders Green stabbings<\/a>, April 29, Al-Saadi instructed a Kata\u2019ib Hizballah contact to \u201cpost it in the news[,] important,\u201d referring to video footage of that attack, including a propaganda video that Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya posted on Telegram in which it claimed credit for that attack, the charging document adds.<\/p>\n

However, there are serious doubts over whether Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya was involved in the attack.<\/p>\n

Al-Saadi allegedly also said he was like a son of Qasem Soleimani, the longtime commander of the IRGC Quds Force who was killed during a US airstrike.<\/p>\n

Charges against Al-Saadi include conspiring to provide material support to the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison; attempted acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; conspiring to bomb a place of public use, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison; attempted destruction of property by means of fire or explosive, which carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years; and financing terrorism, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startling details have emerged of how alleged terrorists with strong links to Tehran directed and filmed an arson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[46513,14401,46512,46511,34,11270,1178,40495,46514,104,69,19806],"class_list":["post-141824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-al-saadi","tag-arson","tag-attempted-attacks","tag-harakat-ashab","tag-iran","tag-justice-department","tag-london","tag-mohammad-baqer-saad-dawood-al-saadi","tag-psychological-warfare","tag-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-tehran","tag-terrorist-group"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116680108655577147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}