41 People Charged in 14 U.S. and British Cases Tied to Iran since 2011; 20 Are at Large

An Iraqi commander of Kata'ib Hizballah was charged with directing nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks in Europe and the United States, including on Jewish and U.S. targets.

Two men were charged under the National Security Act with gathering information and reconnaissance of targets in the U.K. The CPS said the country the charge relates to is Iran.

Three Iranian nationals were charged under the National Security Act with surveillance meant to enable serious violence against a person in the U.K. The Home Secretary told Parliament the foreign state is Iran.

Two Romanian men were charged with stabbing a presenter for Iran International outside his London home in March 2024. A jury convicted both in June 2026.

A man in Iran was charged with hiring two New York men to stalk and kill the journalist; the complaint also says he was tasked with planning to kill the then President-elect. Both New York men pleaded guilty.

Three IRGC employees were charged with breaking into accounts of current and former U.S. officials and campaign staff, and leaking stolen campaign material.

A Pakistani man was charged with traveling to New York to hire hitmen for a politician or U.S. officials; the hitmen were undercover officers. A jury convicted him in March 2026.

A man in Iran and two Canadians were charged with arranging killers for two Maryland residents, one a defector from Iran. The indictment does not name an Iranian agency; Treasury, the same day, said his network works for Iran's intelligence ministry.

Members of an Eastern European crime group were charged with being paid to kill the same journalist; one was arrested near her home with an assault rifle. A 2024 superseding indictment added an IRGC brigadier general and three others in Iran.

A member of the IRGC was charged with offering $300,000 to people in the United States to kill a former national security adviser. The man he recruited was an FBI source.

Four men in Iran were charged with planning to seize a U.S. journalist in Brooklyn and take her to Iran, after hiring private investigators to watch her home. A fifth defendant in California was convicted of sanctions charges, not of the kidnapping conspiracy.

A former U.S. counterintelligence agent who moved to Iran was charged with helping Iranian services target former colleagues; four Iranians were charged with the hacking attempts that followed.

Two men were charged with photographing a Jewish institution in Chicago and identifying people at MEK rallies, for handlers in Iran. Both pleaded guilty.

Prosecutors charged that a naturalized U.S. citizen arranged, with officers in Iran, to hire a cartel hitman to bomb the Saudi ambassador. The hitman was a DEA source.