French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of American building in Paris on the weekend, the interior minister said Monday.<\/p>\n
The authorities suspect there could be a link to Iran due to similarities to other recent attempted attacks in Europe which a pro-Iran group claimed responsibility for, French Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, Paris police officers spotted two suspects carrying a shopping bag near the premises of the Bank of America<\/a> in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital. Five suspects have been arrested, including two on Monday, and the national anti-terrorism prosecutor\u2019s office opened an investigation into alleged terrorism-related offenses.<\/p>\n Authorities are making a \u201cdirect link\u201d with Iran because the \u201cmodus operandi is in every respect similar to actions that have been carried out in\u00a0the Netherlands<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0in Belgium<\/a>,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez said on French radio RTL on Monday morning.<\/p>\n In those cases there were claims by a pro-Iranian group that \u201clinked them to the conflict\u201d in the Middle-East, he said.<\/p>\n The group, known on Telegram under the name Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, which translates as the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, also claimed responsibility for\u00a0an attack last week in London<\/a>, where four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire.<\/p>\n \u201cTypically, intelligence services of this country (Iran) operate in this way: they use proxies, a series of subcontractors, often common criminals, to carry out highly targeted actions aimed at U.S. interests, the interests of the Jewish community, or Iranian opposition figures,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n Nu\u00f1ez said French authorities have stepped up security around key personalities and sites since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, including the personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition.<\/p>\n Join us at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit May 19\u201320, 2026, in Atlanta. The next era of workplace innovation is here\u2014and the old playbook is being rewritten. At this exclusive, high-energy event, the world\u2019s most innovative leaders will convene to explore how AI, humanity, and strategy converge to redefine, again, the future of work. Register now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French authorities are investigating a suspected link to Iran after thwarting a bomb attack outside a Bank of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,16820,382,34,11166],"class_list":{"0":"post-43281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-bomb","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-paris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116319214813031863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43281","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=43281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}