Foxtrot and Rumba: Who are the violent Swedish gangs doing Iran’s bidding? Rival groups are led by Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, and his former associate Ismail Abdo

(National-UAE) Two notorious Swedish criminal gangs have been named as the groups recruited by Iran to carry out attacks on Israeli [targets] and Iranian dissidents.

Foxtrot is led by Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, while his former criminal associate, Ismail Abdo, leads the Rumba organisation. The rival gangs are wanted by the authorities in Sweden on suspicion of ordering killings in a brutal turf war for the country’s drugs market.

Exposed by Mossad

The recruitment of criminal gangs by Iran was revealed by Sweden’s Sapo counter-intelligence service. Israel’s Mossad agency named Majid and Abdo, along with their criminal networks, as the groups used by Tehran.

Swedish politician Alireza Akhondi, who was born in Iran and is a vocal critic of the regime, said he believed the gangs were linked to Tehran through the drug-smuggling activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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