UK Arrests 45-Year-Old Essa Suleiman Over Golders Green Stabbings as HAYI Claim Points to IRGC
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Updated · The Jerusalem Post · May 9
UK Arrests 45-Year-Old Essa Suleiman Over Golders Green Stabbings as HAYI Claim Points to IRGC
1 articles · Updated · The Jerusalem Post · May 9
Essa Suleiman, 45, was arrested over the May 1 stabbing of two Jewish men in London’s Golders Green, an attack later claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, or HAYI.
HAYI’s claim adds to a string of recent attacks on Jewish and Iranian opposition targets in Britain and Europe, including April 15 arson at Finchley Reform Synagogue and Iran International-linked offices, plus a March 23 ambulance fire.
Public evidence cited in the report points to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards nexus: HAYI statements first appeared on Iran-linked and pro-resistance Iraqi Telegram channels, sometimes as attacks were unfolding.
The suspects identified so far are non-Iranians — including British Pakistanis, a Somali-born British citizen and minors — reinforcing analysts’ view that HAYI uses ad hoc, paid or loosely motivated recruits in a form of 'gig economy' terrorism.
The report says the IRGC appears to be running an active antisemitic campaign on British soil even though it is still not proscribed in Britain, where the government has pledged emergency legislation to ban it.
Why has Britain hesitated to ban Iran's IRGC while 'gig economy' terror attacks escalate across Europe?
As Iran outsources terror to local criminals, are Western cities facing a new, undetectable form of state-sponsored warfare?