NCRI – Jordan’s security forces have thwarted a major terrorist plot by the Iranian regime’s Quds Force, according to a judicial source in Amman. At least one person has been detained and large quantities of explosives seized.
Local reports identified the accused as Khalid Kazem al-Rubaie, 49, who holds dual Iraqi-Norwegian citizenship. He was arrested in April.
The accused was planning to carry out a ‘terrorist operation’ on Jordanian soil, the Jordanian daily Al-Rai wrote on Monday. Following his arrest large quantities of explosives were found in his possession in northern Jordan.
The Jordanian State Security Court will on Monday begin a military tribunal, headed by military judge Colonel Mohammad al-Afif, in the case of al-Rubaie who stands accused of being in possession of highly explosive materials and preparing for a terrorist operation in Jordan.
The Al-Rai daily quoted an informed source as saying that 45 kilograms of highly explosive substances was found in al-Rubaie’s possession at a house in the Saqreh Osfur district of Jarsh County.
The source said that this was the biggest confiscation of explosive materials in the country in the past 10 years.
The Quds Force is the extra-territorial branch of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).