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European officials are raising alarms about Iran's Islamic regime allegedly employing children to execute attacks on Israeli targets within Europe.
[H/T Daily Wire]
Bloomberg News has documented multiple instances where Iran purportedly recruits minors for these terror activities:
"A 15-year-old boy gets into a taxi outside Stockholm hiding a loaded gun and asks to be taken to the Israeli embassy. A 13-year-old in Gothenburg is caught firing shots at Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. At the same facility, a 16-year-old helps to plant home-made explosives outside the main entrance. … In Brussels in May, the security services found children as young as 14 orchestrating an attack on the Israeli embassy."
Iran uses these young proxies to maintain a level of plausible deniability in these operations. The report notes that Nordic countries are particularly at risk because “they have traditionally been open societies with minimal policing and high trust.”
A key reason for targeting children is the relatively lenient criminal consequences they face. In Sweden and Norway, "they can’t even be prosecuted if they are under 15 years old," according to the report.
The payment varies, with Iranian-backed agents offering up to "$1,500 for a murder or a couple hundred dollars for a 'petrol bomb attack,'" the report detailed.
Moreover, there are instances where these young individuals are unaware of their role in international espionage or terrorism. "There are cases where the proxies aren’t aware or don’t realize that they are acting on behalf of a foreign power," the Swedish Security Service stated earlier this year.
This alert comes at a time when Europe has been on high alert for the past 14 months, following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, which led to an uptick in Islamic extremist activities. Many of these groups are reacting strongly to Israel's military response to the attack, where Hamas was responsible for the deaths of over 1,200 individuals.
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Bloomberg News has documented multiple instances where Iran purportedly recruits minors for these terror activities:
"A 15-year-old boy gets into a taxi outside Stockholm hiding a loaded gun and asks to be taken to the Israeli embassy. A 13-year-old in Gothenburg is caught firing shots at Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems. At the same facility, a 16-year-old helps to plant home-made explosives outside the main entrance. … In Brussels in May, the security services found children as young as 14 orchestrating an attack on the Israeli embassy."
Iran uses these young proxies to maintain a level of plausible deniability in these operations. The report notes that Nordic countries are particularly at risk because “they have traditionally been open societies with minimal policing and high trust.”
A key reason for targeting children is the relatively lenient criminal consequences they face. In Sweden and Norway, "they can’t even be prosecuted if they are under 15 years old," according to the report.
The payment varies, with Iranian-backed agents offering up to "$1,500 for a murder or a couple hundred dollars for a 'petrol bomb attack,'" the report detailed.
Moreover, there are instances where these young individuals are unaware of their role in international espionage or terrorism. "There are cases where the proxies aren’t aware or don’t realize that they are acting on behalf of a foreign power," the Swedish Security Service stated earlier this year.
This alert comes at a time when Europe has been on high alert for the past 14 months, following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, which led to an uptick in Islamic extremist activities. Many of these groups are reacting strongly to Israel's military response to the attack, where Hamas was responsible for the deaths of over 1,200 individuals.
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