Iranian terror plot foiled when sleeper cell agent captured

The sickening attack allegedly included the murder of exiled Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, as well as the murder of dozens of innocent civilians in Los Angeles, Arizona, New York City and elsewhere, court documents say.

Aaron Y. Zelin, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, warned that the foiled plot is evidence that America’s now three-month conflict with Iran has entered a dangerous new phase.

“They have expanded their reach to real Western countries, now outside the war zone,” Zelin explained.

Prosecutors alleged that al-Saadi’s job, prior to his arrest, was to recruit suicide bombers willing to cause chaos in the West and coordinate attacks from afar.

Meanwhile, his lawyer has called him “a political prisoner,” but Al-Saadi’s charging documents, released by US court on May 15, include transcripts of telephone conversations in which he allegedly discussed the firebombing of a Belgian synagogue as well as the destruction of a Bank of America outpost in Paris.