Belgium’s top threat-analysis official, Gert Vercauteren, says the perpetrators of two attacks earlier this year “certainly” acted on instructions from Tehran’s calls to strike Jewish and Israeli targets worldwide.
🚨🇮🇷🇧🇪 BELGIAN SECURITY CHIEF DIRECTLY LINKS PREVIOUS ATTACKS ON JEWISH TARGETS TO IRAN
Belgium’s top threat-analysis official, Gert Vercauteren, says the perpetrators of two attacks earlier this year “certainly” acted on instructions from Tehran’s calls to strike Jewish and Israeli targets worldwide.
The attacks — an explosion outside a synagogue in Liège and an arson attack in Antwerp’s Jewish quarter — are now being linked to a broader Iranian-directed campaign targeting Jewish sites across Europe.
Authorities uncovered cross-border connections to additional plots, including a planned synagogue bombing in the Netherlands that was foiled. A suspected organizer of the wider European network was later arrested in Turkey — and Belgian authorities say no further Iran-inspired attacks have been recorded since his arrest.
The campaign has also been linked to HAYI (Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya), a previously unknown group that claimed numerous attacks on Jewish and Israel-linked targets across Europe, and whose material circulated through pro-Iranian networks.