S8 Ep669: 7. The Surge of Iranian-Linked Front Groups and Terror in Europe GUEST: Bill Roggio, Joe Truzman SUMMARY: Joe Truzman investigates a string of firebombings against Jewish institutions in Europe by a suspected Iranian front group. Analysts believe these "c

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7. The Surge of Iranian-Linked Front Groups and Terror in Europe GUEST: Bill Roggio, Joe Truzman SUMMARY: Joe Truzman investigates a string of firebombings against Jewish institutions in Europe by a suspected Iranianfront group. Analysts believe these "cutouts" are designed to hide Tehran’s direct involvement in orchestrating international violence.,, A new group called Asabat al-Yamin has claimed responsibility for firebombing ambulances and attacking Jewish sites in London and Europe. Joe Truzman and Bill Roggio suspect this is a made-up Iranian front group created to provide Tehran with plausible deniability while escalating terror across the continent,. They argue that the term "lone wolf" is often misapplied to individuals who are actually inspired or directed by radical online networks, as seen in a recent attack in Austin, Texas,. (7)

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0:00.0	I'm John Batchler. I'm Bill Rajio is a senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, Long War
0:21.7	Journal, and Bill and I have been talking for more than two decades now about terror attacks,
0:27.7	always very difficult to isolate when it is a civilian from out of nowhere. The understanding
0:35.0	for many years, this is doing the long War on Terror, was Lone Wolf, often suggested,
0:42.6	just spontaneously decided to take out a knife and cut people on the train in Germany or some other incidents of driving a truck into a crowd of shoppers at Christmas time.
0:56.4	Lone Wolf, we're never certain it isn't. We're never certain it is. So in that light, we come to Joe Trusman of the Foundation
1:01.9	for Defense of Democracy, writing up a firebombing and an attack in London by, well, the question is,
1:10.6	what does this have to do with Iran? It's going on at the same
1:14.5	time there are protests throughout Islam about the American and Israeli war on the various gangs,
1:23.8	the sympathetic alliances of the Russians and the Chinese, but, Joe, a very good evening to you.
1:31.4	What are the details we know for now about a firebombing or in some fashion an attack on Jewish
1:37.9	institutions in London? Good evening to you. Good evening, John and Bill. I'm always happy to be here.
1:47.2	So, yes, so what we are observing, uh, over the since early March, we've seen a string of
1:54.6	attacks against Jewish, mostly Jewish institutions across Europe, um, including there was a was an attack on an American-owned bank as well recently.
2:08.6	Specifically, in the case of the attack in London, and of course in relation to the other attacks,
2:17.0	a group calling itself, in short,
2:20.9	Ashabal Yamin, is claiming attacks against these Jewish sites and an American-owned bank.
2:28.8	And in London, recently, last week, this group claimed responsibility for attacking, they claimed it was a synagogue,
2:37.8	but what actually happened was the firebomb for ambulances that were parked next to the synagogue.
2:45.3	And these ambulances were owned by a Jewish charity.
2:49.4	So this is what occurred.
2:51.8	The group claimed responsibility shortly after.
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