S8 Ep781: 13. Joe Truzman identifies Ashab al-Yamin, an Iranian front group conducting arson and IED attacks across Europe. These low-sophistication strikes target Jewish and Western institutions to distance Tehran from direct blame. Authorities struggle to respond
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel, Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host joins, and we're very pleased to welcome Joe |
| 0:21.2 | Trusman to introduce us to an entirely new threat to my knowledge. You will recall that these |
| 0:27.6 | last decades, Mr. Rajio and his colleagues have repeatedly made it clear to the American people |
| 0:34.8 | that Iran is the number one sponsor of terror in the world, in the world, |
| 0:39.7 | in the solar system, Iran. Therefore, Ashab al-Yamin. Joe, a very good evening to you, |
| 0:47.8 | Joe Trusman reporting for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, especially on the |
| 0:52.7 | Long World Journal site. |
| 1:00.1 | What is Ashab al-Yamim, who sponsors it, and what is the threat? |
| 1:01.0 | Good evening to you, Joe. |
| 1:05.5 | Good evening, John, and Bill. So, yeah, so what is this organization? |
| 1:17.2 | So, effectively, what we believe is, I suspect, it's a front organization. |
| 1:19.5 | This is a made-up organization. |
| 1:23.6 | This is crafted by the Iranian regime. |
| 1:26.7 | So what is happening here exactly? So this organization, what it has been doing, |
| 1:30.5 | it has been claiming and carrying out attacks against mostly Jewish institutions across Europe |
| 1:41.1 | since early March. These are, most of these attacks are either arson attacks, |
| 1:47.9 | Molotov cocktails. Some of them are IED attacks, meaning that they would, for example, |
| 1:55.0 | they'll place an IED in front of a, at a door at a synagogue, all right, and then it'll, |
| 2:00.1 | at the front door of a synagogue, you know, then it will and then detonate it. |
| 2:03.4 | These are the type of attacks that this, this organization is carrying out. |
| 2:07.4 | But again, Ashab al-Yamin is not an actual group like Hamas or or Hezbollah, for example. |
| 2:15.4 | Again, this is a front organization, a made-up organization for Iran that not only Iran is orchestrating, |
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