Terror organization: IRGC/Quds Force terror constructor

Status: Senior operative.

Role: Pakistani citizen that lives in Iran in the city of Kom for decades and works with IRGC and Quds Force units to launch terror attacks around the world. He is deeply involved in recruitment of foreign students that came to study in universities in Iran, especially in Al Mustafa university in Kom.

He was the mastermind behind the foiled terror attack in Greece in the beginning of 2023 to try and kill Jews and Israelis in a restaurant in Athens.

Location: Pakistan/Iran.

Activities:

Senior Israeli security source names Mohammad Mohsen Reza‏ as head of network of Pakistani nationals that allegedly works on behalf of IRGC

A senior Israeli security official on Tuesday revealed the alleged identity of a handler in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who recruited a pair of Pakistani nationals accused of planning to attack a Chabad house in Athens.

The handler’s name is ‏Mohammad Mohsen Reza‏, a 65-year-old Pakistani national living in the Iranian city of Qom, the security official told reporters.

The official said that Reza‏ has been running a network of fellow Pakistani nationals that has been planning attacks on targets of the IRGC around the globe.

The pair arrested last week was identified in local media as 27-year-old ‏Irtaza Haider‏ and 29-year-old ‏Hussein Abid, who were allegedly in the final stages of planning the attack on the Chabad house.

The security official said Haider and Abid were recruited by another Pakistani national, 30-year-old Syed Fakhar Abbas, who works under Reza‏.‏ Abbas is wanted for murder in Pakistan and fled from there to Iran.

Local media reported last week that the suspects were spotted surveilling the Chabad house in the weeks leading up to their arrest. The reports also said the pair failed to get hold of guns to carry out a shooting and were instead told by their handler to buy propane tanks that could be detonated in an attack.