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Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Manhattan with conspiring to support Kata’ib Hizballah, which the US said is closely aligned with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and both are designated as terrorist organizations.
Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Coyle said at a hearing that al-Saadi was placed into custody Thursday when he arrived in New York. Al-Saadi’s court-appointed attorney, Andrew Dalack, told the ...