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Fears grow that Iran may be using proxy groups beyond Middle East
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Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi (right), commander of the Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah, meeting the late Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
PHOTO: US DOJ/NYTIMES
Aaron Boxerman, Neil MacFarquhar and Falih Hassan
New York – A criminal complaint against an Iraqi man that was unsealed in a US court on May 15, accusing him of plotting attacks in the US, has raised fears that Iran is increasingly wielding its proxy forces to target Western interests far beyond the Middle East.
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards has tried to kill its opponents on American soil even before the war with the US, according to US officials.
