{"id":183348,"date":"2026-06-29T18:43:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/183348\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:43:20","slug":"russian-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-terror-planning-synagogue-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/183348\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man arrested on suspicion of terror, planning synagogue arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented an arson attack on a synagogue in Yaroslavl and arrested a suspected member of an international terrorist organization, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-900730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian<\/a> state news agency TASS reported on Monday, citing the FSB.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a Russian national who was allegedly obeying instructions from a handler in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900551\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a>, purchased components and chemicals used to manufacture incendiary devices, according to the FSB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Incendiary devices and communication devices containing instructions from the handler were discovered in the suspect\u2019s home, TASS cited the FSB as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspect intended to use one such device in a synagogue in Yaroslavl, going so far as to conduct reconnaissance of the area and photograph the building, but was identified and arrested, the FSB said.<\/p>\n<p>TASS wrote that the suspect is a supporter of an international terrorist organization and planned to travel to Syria, where he would join them after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arson<\/a> attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A criminal case has been opened to prosecute the suspect for preparing for a terrorist attack and participating in the activities of an organization recognized as a terrorist on the territory of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented an arson attack on a synagogue in Yaroslavl and arrested a suspected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[2492,14401,55,8781,95,55202,545],"class_list":["post-183348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-antisemitism","tag-arson","tag-russia","tag-synagogue","tag-syria","tag-terror-in-russia","tag-terrorism"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116834874382116950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183348","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=183348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}