Two Iranians planning to launch terror attack on Nairobi arrested by Kenya security agencies

Kenyan Police have arrested two men on suspicion of terror and espionage on behalf of the Iranian State Intelligence. The men, Abubakar Sadiq Louw,69, and Mojtaba Ghanbarian aka “Parsa” targeted key spots in Kenya, including hotels frequently used by Western tourists, businessmen and diplomats.

Louw, a senior figure in Nairobi Shiite Community was arrested on October 29 after a long intensive police investigation. He admitted recruiting young Kenyans to spy and mount terror attacks in Nairobi. Louw was working on behalf of the Qods Force, the clandestine overseas military wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which carries out the terror activities worldwide.
One of Louw’s recruit was 25 year old Yassin Sambai Juma, a student from Nairobi

Sadiq Louw further disclosed to the investigators that he arranged for Juma to travel to Iran and introduced him to the Qods Force contact, nicknamed “Parsa”.
“Parsa” subsequently gave Juma a set of tasks and Western targets for future terror attacks in Nairobi.  Juma was subsequently arrested by the police on the 19th of November, upon his return to Nairobi after having undertaken some military training in Iraq.

Louw also admitted that he was approached by Iranian government officials in 2012 to serve the country’s military intelligence organization. He was tasked then to identify suitable Kenyan students aged 20-30 who would become spies and carry out attacks on Western interests in Kenya. According to Citizen Digital, Louw has recruited a pool of local young Muslim men to serve as secret operatives for Qods Force in the past one year. Louw’s recruits were enticed with the promise of receiving “a scholarship for Islamic Studies ” and military training in Iran.

When Juma travelled to Iran in April, he used the guise of going for Islamic training on scholarship hence did not raise any suspicion from the immigration.
An extensive investigation by the Kenyan Security Services, which included reaching out to other services in Africa, has enabled investigations to determine that “Parsa” has visited several countries in the continent in the past and that
his real name is Mojtaba Ghanbarian.