Iran Currency Exchanges Key to Cartel-Style Terror Payments, FBI Wiretaps Confirm

A senior commander for Kata’ib Hizballah — the Iraqi proxy militia of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — directed a sprawling international terrorist campaign that included an attack on the United States consulate in Toronto, paid operatives across Europe and Canada to carry out bombings and arsons against Jewish and American targets, and attempted to hire what he believed was a Mexican cartel operative to set fire to synagogues in New York, Los Angeles, and Arizona, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday in the Southern District of New York.

The most significant disclosure in the complaint for Canadians is Al-Saadi’s recorded admission — captured on a wiretapped call on March 20, 2026, by a FBI source — that his network was directly responsible for two attacks on Canadian soil: a shooting at the United States consulate in Toronto on March 10, 2026, and a separate attack on a Toronto synagogue that Al-Saadi referred to obliquely as hitting “the Knesset.”

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