Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Patel, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., and Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office of the FBI, Darren Cox, announced today an eight-count indictment charging MOHAMMAD BAQER SAAD DAWOOD AL-SAADI, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, with terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”), two U.S. designated foreign terrorist organizations (“FTOs”), including his involvement in nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks throughout Europe and the United States.