The Mossad intelligence agency releases new information about a transnational terror network run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force that it says was behind a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries.

According to Israel’s foreign spy agency, senior IRGC-Quds Force commander Sardar Ammar heads the network, which intensified its efforts to attack Jewish and Israeli sites around the world since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.

Ammar commands some 11,000 operatives in carrying out covert operations, Mossad alleges.

The network carried out vandalism and arson attacks against Jewish businesses and communal institutions, Mossad says, “aiming to intimidate communities and create conditions that could lead to more serious attacks.”

Sardar’s network also planned attacks against senior Jewish communal figures, it says.

Mossad points to three particular incidents tied to the network, among several more it uncovered in cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies.

In July 2024, Greece’s anti-terrorism police arrested seven people — including two Iranians — over separate arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in central Athens earlier that year.

In July of this year, German prosecutors said that Danish police arrested a man suspected of gathering information on Jewish locations and individuals in Berlin for Iranian intelligence.

The next month, Australia blamed Iran for involvement in two 2024 arson attacks, at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne and a kosher restaurant in Sydney, using criminals and members of organized crime gangs. Canberra also expelled Iran’s ambassador.

In order to hide Iran’s involvement, Mossad says, the network recruited non-Iranians, used criminal gangs, and insisted on a high degree of compartmentalization.

The attacks were generally seen by intelligence agencies as amateurish and bumbling, The Times of Israel has been told.