Iran said Saturday that it had detained a leader of a California-based group for allegedly plotting a fatal mosque attack in 2008 that left more than 200 injured. The country’s Intelligence Ministry said it detained the Kingdom Assembly of Iran’s Jamshid Sharmahd, who is Iranian-American, as part of a “complex operation,” The Associated Press reported. Iran says Sharmahd ran the group’s Tondar wing and also claimed that the militant opposition group was planning additional attacks in the Middle Eastern nation amid tensions between the U.S. and Tehran relating to the deterioration of their 2015 nuclear deal.
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