The charges include conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to provide material support for acts of terrorism, and conspiracy to bomb a place of public use.
He allegedly worked closely with Qasem Soleimani, the longtime commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), who was killed during a US airstrike in 2020.
The criminal complaint accuses Saadi of calling on others to attack and kill Americans, including in retribution for Soleimani’s death.
US Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the arrest was an example of American law enforcement serving to “disrupt and dismantle foreign terrorist organizations and their leaders”.
“As alleged in the complaint, Al-Saadi directed and urged others to attack US and Israeli interests and to kill Americans and Jews in the US and abroad, and in doing so advance the terrorist goals of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” Blanche said in a statement.
