Federal prosecutors in New York announced an eight-count superseding indictment on Tuesday against three Iranian-backed operatives, the Justice Department said. The three are Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national, and Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national. They are charged with terrorism offenses in support of Kata'ib Hizballah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, two groups the United States has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

The indictment ties the three men to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States, the department said. It also charges them in a September 2026 plot against RAF Fairford, a British Royal Air Force base in Fairford, United Kingdom, where American armed forces were stationed at the time. Prosecutors say the campaign targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States as well as the base.

According to the Justice Department, al-Hassani orchestrated the Fairford plot. He and Mohajeri were both in Iran at the time and relied on a network of contacts in the United Kingdom, prosecutors say. Al-Saadi was already in jail in the Southern District of New York, awaiting trial on terrorism charges. Prosecutors say he tried to coordinate with the other two from his cell by passing coded messages through third parties. Reuters reports that al-Saadi helped plot the Fairford attack from a U.S. jail.

Al-Saadi was first charged in New York on or about May 28, 2026, the department said. Prosecutors describe him as a longtime operative of the IRGC and Kata'ib Hizballah. They say he helped plan and promote about 18 terrorist attacks in Europe, and that in March and April 2026, while he was in Iraq with Mohajeri and al-Hassani, he also tried to carry out attacks in the United States, including an attempt to bomb a synagogue in Manhattan.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the indictment shows Iran's determination to commit terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, including the plot recently prevented at the British base. Darren Cox, the FBI's Washington Assistant Director in Charge, put it this way: "Even after Al-Saadi was brought to the United States to face prosecution, he and his co-defendants allegedly continued coordinating terrorist activity, including a plot against a British Royal Air Force base housing American service members." NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said the case includes a plot to bomb a Manhattan synagogue.

Here is what it means. Prosecutors say Iran's proxies reached from Iraq, from Iran and even from an American jail to strike Jewish communities and American troops. The case now moves forward in federal court in New York.