Police gained Two Iranians who are planning to ruin Kenya

Kenyan Police have arrested two men on
suspicion of terror and espionage on behalf of the
Iranian State Intelligence. The men, Abubakar
Sadiq Louw,69, and Mojtaba Ghanbarian aka
"Parsa" targeted key spots in Kenya, including
hotels frequently used by Western tourists,
businessmen and diplomats.
Louw, a senior figure in Nairobi Shiite Community
was arrested on October 29 after a long intensive
police investigation. He admitted recruiting young
Kenyans to spy and mount terror attacks in
Nairobi. Louw was working on behalf of the Qods
Force, the clandestine overseas military wing of
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),
which carries out the terror activities worldwide.
One of Louw's recruit was 25 year old Yassin
Sambai Juma, a student from Nairobi
Sadiq Louw further disclosed to the investigators
that he arranged for Juma to travel to Iran and
introduced him to the Qods Force contact,
nicknamed “Parsa”.
“Parsa” subsequently gave Juma a set of tasks
and Western targets for future terror attacks in
Nairobi. Juma was subsequently arrested by the
police on the 19th of November, upon his return
to Nairobi after having undertaken some military
training in Iraq.
Louw also admitted that he was approached by
Iranian government officials in 2012 to serve the
country’s military intelligence organization. He
was tasked then to identify suitable Kenyan
students aged 20-30 who would become spies
and carry out attacks on Western interests in
Kenya. According to Citizen Digital, Louw has
recruited a pool of local young Muslim men to
serve as secret operatives for Qods Force in the
past one year. Louw’s recruits were enticed with
the promise of receiving “a scholarship for Islamic
Studies ” and military training in Iran.
When Juma travelled to Iran in April, he used the
guise of going for Islamic training on scholarship
hence did not raise any suspicion from the
immigration.
An extensive investigation by the Kenyan Security
Services, which included reaching out to other
services in Africa, has enabled investigations to
determine that “Parsa” has visited several
countries in the continent in the past and that
his real name is Mojtaba Ghanbarian.
Ghanbarian and Juma met in Karbala, Iraq in
October, 2015 during which Juma was introduced
to a special training. This training session was
scheduled when the two first met in Iran in April.
This was also a good time for Ghanbarian to pay
Juma thousands of dollars to fund his and
Abubakar Sadiq Louw’s terror activity in Kenya.
While in Iraq, “Parsa” introduced Juma to Iranian
experts who trained him on tactical fieldwork,
methods for withstanding interrogation and how
to disguise his true identity. In Karbala, Juma
met with an Iranian espionage expert nick-named
“the Professor “. The Iranian professor taught
Juma techniques of how to move from place to
place while avoiding detection or being followed
by security agencies. To assess Juma abilities in
what he had been introduced to, he was
subjected to a practical in which he was sent on
an exercise that was used as a dry run for his
real mission back home in Kenya.
The task was to gather discretely information on
a hotel in Karbala, a simulation of the actual
mission that was given to him later on by the
Qods contact “Parsa” to gather operational
intelligence on prominent hotels in Nairobi. The
extent of the training Juma received in Iran and
Iraq is not yet known, but it is assessed that he
was due to go for further training, such as
handling explosive materials and electronic
components, using encrypted communications
and more.
Juma has admitted that “Parsa” had arranged to
meet him in Tanzania in the Spring, for further
instructions and training. “Parsa” had also told
Juma that in the future he would have to
recommend other locals suitable for recruitment
as terror operatives.
Louw, who recruited Juma, has all this time
maintained close relationship and communication
with “Parsa” via coded email messages. Louw has
used this method to inform “Parsa” about his
recruits and other Iranian interests. Louw visited
Iran for the first time in the early 1980s shortly
after the Iranian revolution.
Over the past few years, he was summoned to
Iran several times, with his flights and
accommodation sponsored by the Iranian
government. It was during these visits that Louw
met with his Qods Force contact “Parsa”. He has
also disclosed that other operatives flew with him
for meetings in Iran.
Counter-terror police are currently searching for
these individuals and all other Kenyans Louw
recruited, including students form Rasoul El-
Akram School in Barsol. Some of these students
visited Iran for Islamic studies with Louw’s
assistance.
Louw’s and Juma’s arrest came after months of
secret intensive work by Kenyan Police, in
cooperation with the other law enforcement
agencies in Africa. The Iranian Qods Force has
been trying to operate in Kenya for years to
recruit young Muslims and train them to smuggle
explosives in the country. However they are
encountering rigorous efforts by Kenya Police and
law enforcement agencies to foil terror activity in
the country. The police are working closely with
the local Shiite Muslim community to determine
threats and locate anyone who may be working
for the Iranian government against Kenyan
interests. These people are being monitored and
will be dealt with at the discretion of the police
and in accordance with the law.
Sources: Kenya Ministry of Interior and
Coordination of National Government
:Citizen Digital