Jomana Karadsheh

Well, you know, David, back in March, that's when we started seeing these arson attacks targeting mostly Jewish sites, Jewish organizations, synagogues in different parts of Europe.

I think the one that grabbed everyone's attention was that massive attack in the predominantly Jewish area of Golders Green in North London that targeted the volunteer ambulance service, the Hitzola.

I mean, those pictures at that time shocked so many in London.

That was at the end of March, and that was the first attack that took place in the UK.

And it was claimed by a group that we'd never heard of before, Harekat Ashab al-Yameen al-Islamiyah, known as HAYI.

And this is a group that emerged just a few days after the war in Iran began.

And we started looking and it had claimed several attacks in Belgium, the Netherlands, France.

And then you had that first attack in the UK and then several others that followed the following week.

And we started hearing from different security experts.

and British authorities as well, that they were investigating and looking into Iran's links to this group that appeared only really online.

Their claims of responsibility, propaganda videos, would pop up on telegram channels that are run by the Iranian-backed Shia groups in Iraq.

And so, you know, all everything was, you know, pointing towards Iran being involved in these attacks and that this group, as some experts were telling us, appears to be a front for the IRGC.

And that's really how we started digging into what is going on.

Who is this group?

How are they operating in the UK or Europe?

And, you know, when you look at the suspects, David, in most of these arson attacks that

Most of them seem to be young teenagers in a lot of these cases.

And the question was, how are they being recruited, right?

And that's how we started really digging into it.

So we're still waiting to hear from the British authorities and others in Europe about how these young people are being recruited.