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Kenyan security forces are in a state of alarm following reports that Iranian militants have infiltrated East Africa in an attempt to free imprisoned terrorists of Iranian origin in Kenya
. Star, there is a deliberate attempt to release the two convicts, after the first attempt in 2014.
Ahmad Mohammed and Sayed Mousavi were arrested in Nairobi with explosive substances in 2012.
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Security agencies were put on alert, with increased surveillance of Iranian nationals.
According to information shared with Kenyan authorities, members are suspected of being members of Qods Force. The Force is the terrorist branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which secretly works in some cases as tourists or businessmen.
worked to ensure that his members detained in foreign jails are released.
Kenya has been alerted that agents could plan a prison break or target Israeli or US interests in the country.
Shin Bet Kenya arrested "two senior (Iranian) guards from the Revolutionary Guards Corps – Mohammed and Mousavi – who were preparing a terrorist attack on an Israeli target in Kenya."
Kenyan investigators said at the time that it was unclear whether the couple had links to al-Qaeda-related militants in Somalia or was part of another network.
Moussavi and Mohammed appealed to the Supreme Court against their 15-year prison sentence for planning terrorist attacks in the country.
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The Iranians declared themselves innocent and came to the country as tourists and embarked on possible commercial ventures.
The anti-terrorist police believe that Quds Force agents were planning a plot that could have been considered an Al Shabaab attack.
Qods Force agents spread the negative influences of Iran and were responsible for numerous terrorist attacks. They are highly trained and highly secretive and security agencies say their activities remain a threat to Kenya.
In 2015, Kenyan security forces arrested two Kenyans with links to Iran because they were suspected of planning terrorist attacks.
The Interior Ministry first identified both men as Iranians, but later stated that he had published this detail by mistake and that the two men had links with Iran, but were not of Iranian nationality.
"The two men, Abubakar Sadiq Louw and Ybadin Sambai Juma, admitted to conspiring to mount terrorist attacks against Western targets in Kenya," the ministry said at the time.
In February, police followed a vehicle carrying weapons. from Somalia and hired a suspect in a shootout before killing him and arresting his two accomplices.
More than 1,000 bullets, 36 grenades, 18 bady traps and five AK-47 rifles were recovered from the suspect's car. the alleged terrorists targeted Jogoo House's office – IG Joseph Boinnet and the Supreme Court with the intention of forcibly releasing the two convicted terrorists.
In 2014, following Interpol, an alleged Qods Force officer working in the country under diplomatic cover Interpol said that the man – Mahdi Namehavar – arrived in Nairobi on July 13 and he has tried to bribe senior government officials, including those who have been working in close collaboration with international counter-terrorism agencies to try to dismantle all the terrorist cells that could have taken root in the country.
victim of major terrorist attacks such as Westgate on September 21, 2013 and Garissa University on April 2, 2015, which had a negative socio-economic impact.
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