A former US Navy sailor has pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to plotting an attack on Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois purportedly on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the Justice Department said on Thursday.
IRAN INTERNATIONAL -- Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, of North Chicago, pleaded guilty on Nov. 5, 2024, to conspiracy and attempted destruction of national defense facilities, but his case was unsealed on Thursday.
"In the summer of 2021, Pang communicated with an individual in Colombia about potentially assisting with a plan involving Iranian actors to conduct an attack against the United States to avenge the death of Qasem Soleimani ," the US Justice Department said in a press release.
Soleimani, a commander of IRGC's Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in January 2020, a move ordered by US President Donald Trump.