Dual-National Indicted Over Global Terror Plots Tied to IRGC and Kata’ib Hizballah
An eight-count indictment charges Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, with conspiring to provide material support to the IRGC and Kata’ib Hizballah, two U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, for involvement in roughly 18–20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States, including plans that targeted a New York synagogue; he was detained abroad, transported to the Southern District of New York, and faces up to life in prison on some counts.