Revealed: How three Iran-backed 'terror masterminds plotted multiple attacks' on London

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‘We need to get focused on London,’ one terror suspect allegedly said

Huddled over a laptop, Mohammad Ali al-Hassani and Mohsen Mohajeri stare at a map of London on the screen, according to legal papers.

“We need to get focused on London,” Mohajeri allegedly told al-Hassani.

They are said to have been plotting terror attacks on the capital from a poorly-lit room some 2,500 miles away in Iraq.

In the photo, Mohajeri’s hand is on the computer mouse, according to the legal documents, which would have enabled him to move the cursor around the map of London, with the outline of The Thames seemingly visible on screen.

The hand of a third man, sitting in a chair, can be seen in the background.

Details of the alleged meeting have emerged in an indictment by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on terrorism-related charges against three men over their suspected involvement in nearly 20 incidents across Europe and America.

Seven of them allegedly targeted Britain including the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, attacks on synagogues in London, the arson on Hatzola ambulances in the capital, strikes on a Jewish charity and media organisation, and a purported attack on the Israeli Embassy in Kensington with drones claimed to have been “loaded with dangerous carcinogenic and radioactive materials”.

The DOJ said Iranian-Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Iranian national Mohajeri, and Iraqi national al-Hassani had been charged in an eight-count indictment in connection with their alleged activities in support of two US-designated foreign terrorist organisations, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah.

Mohajeri, 48, is an IRGC operative, according to the documents, unsealed in a Manhattan court.

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