A newly exposed Iranian terror proxy launched a wave of targeted attacks against Jewish and American targets across Europe in recent weeks while simultaneously calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump, according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York. The network’s commander, Mohammed Bakr Saad Dawood al-Saadi, was arrested Wednesday in Turkey and now faces serious charges including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist organizations and conspiracy to bomb public places, the ‘New York Post’ reported Sunday.
4+According to court documents filed in New York, the terror group “Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyah” appeared on the political and security scene suddenly in March 2026, immediately after the start of military confrontation between the U.S. and Israel against Iran. Within just a few weeks, the organization carried out 18 bombings, stabbings and arson attacks across Europe.
The indictment states the terror wave began March 9 with an explosive device detonated at a synagogue in Liège, Belgium. Following the attack, al-Saadi published the organization’s logo—a raised fist holding a rifle—on Telegram channels and called on “warriors of Islam” to wage jihad and operate “where darkness dwells.”
4+Following the call, a wave of antisemitic and anti-American attacks spread across European capitals, including: an explosive device detonated at a Bank of New York Mellon branch in Amsterdam, a deliberate arson attack against Jewish community ambulances in London, and a double stabbing in which two Jews were stabbed in London.
On April 20, al-Saadi posted a direct threatening message targeting the President of the United States on Snapchat, using the official logo of the “Hiya” organization: “Kill this arrogant, criminal and cursed Trump. We direct our message to the free people of America, especially to the security services, to the Secret Service, and to the victims of Epstein’s island, where the blood of families was spilled and the lives of children were taken.”
4+The terror commander’s downfall came after he tried to expand the organization’s operations into U.S. territory. Al-Saadi made contact with and transferred funds to an undercover American federal agent, whom he mistakenly believed was a member of a Mexican drug cartel, with the goal of having him carry out an arson attack against a synagogue in New York City. Following the money transfer, al-Saadi was arrested Wednesday by security forces in Turkey.
The use of shell organizations and new fronts, such as the “Hiya” organization, is a familiar, years-long operating method of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force and its proxies in the Middle East, primarily the organization “Kataib Hezbollah”—the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades.
4+Al-Saadi, defined in the indictment as a senior figure in the Iraqi organization, was previously photographed alongside the mythological Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by the U.S. in 2020. The establishment of these new organizations “overnight” is designed to allow Iran and its proxies diplomatic deniability while circumventing the surveillance systems of Western intelligence agencies, especially during direct military confrontation.
Al-Saadi’s attempt to link the call to assassinate President Trump to local conspiracy theories in the U.S.—such as the Jeffrey Epstein island affair—and his unusual appeal to American Secret Service agents, indicate a sophisticated attempt to exploit social and political divisions within the United States to create instability and undermine security arrangements around senior administration officials.
4+His arrest in Turkey thanks to a complex FBI sting operation cuts off the command chain of the new network, but makes clear that security vigilance around Jewish and American institutions worldwide must remain at its peak.