A 32-year-old dual Iraqi-Iranian citizen named Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi has been hit with an eight-count terrorism indictment for plotting nearly 20 attacks across the United States and Europe — including a planned strike on a New York City synagogue. But remember, folks, wanting to know who's coming into our country makes you a bigot.
Twenty attacks. One guy. Already here. And the left wants to talk about "Islamophobia."
According to the indictment out of the Southern District of New York, Al-Saadi has been working as an operative of Kata'ib Hezbollah — a designated terrorist organization — and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps since at least 2017. That's nearly a decade of alleged terrorist work. He coordinated roughly 18 attacks across Europe while simultaneously plotting strikes inside the United States.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't mince words. "Al-Saadi has been directly involved in terrorist operations and military decisions to attack U.S. and Israeli interests across the world," Blanche said. And the evidence backs it up.
The details read like a Tom Clancy novel, except it's real and nobody's laughing. A February 2024 photo shows Al-Saadi posing in front of machine guns with a U.S. map marked with "legitimate targets." On April 18, he was on a FaceTime call watching a London synagogue operation unfold in real time. On April 29, two Jewish men were stabbed in London. He told agents — after waiving his Miranda rights, mind you — "If God grants us success tonight, there will be a shooting at a restaurant."
Drone attacks on the Israeli Embassy in London. Incendiary devices. Machine guns. A New York City synagogue in the crosshairs. This wasn't some internet troll making idle threats from his mother's basement. This was an organized, funded, Iran-backed terror operative running operations on multiple continents.
Al-Saadi was detained on May 1 while traveling abroad and transferred to FBI custody on May 14. The charges include material support to terrorist organizations, attempted acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and financing terrorism. Two of those counts carry life imprisonment.
Good.
Let's be crystal clear about what happened here. A man with direct ties to the IRGC and Kata'ib Hezbollah — operating through a shell group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya — was actively coordinating terror attacks against Americans and our allies. He had maps of U.S. targets. He had weapons. He had a network stretching from Tehran to London to New York.
And yet every single time we said "maybe we should know who's entering the country," we were called xenophobes. Every time we said Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, we were told we were war-mongering. Every time we pointed out that open borders and lax vetting are national security threats, the "experts" on cable news rolled their eyes.
As reported by America's Voice News, this case is exactly the kind of threat President Trump has been warning about for years. Not theoretical. Not hypothetical. Twenty planned attacks and a man with a map of American targets.
We were right. Again. The indictment just made it official.
