Kenya holds two Iranians on terror charges

Two Iranians have been charged with planning a terrorist act after being caught filming the Israeli embassy in the Kenyan capital Nairobi this week, the AFP news agency reports.

Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee were charged and remanded in custody on Thursday alongside their Kenyan driver Moses Keyah Mbogah.

They were charged with being “in facilitation of a terrorist act” after “taking video clips of the Israeli embassy using mobile phones”, the court heard.

They denied the charges.

The three men were allegedly driving in an Iranian embassy car at the time of the arrest.

The Prosecutor Duncan Ondimu told the court the men had also been to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison outside Nairobi where they had visited two other Iranians, Ahmad Mohammed and Sayed Mousavi, who were serving a 15-year sentence for possessing explosives after being found guilty in 2013.

Mr Ebrahimi, Mr Safaee and Mr Mbogah will appear in court again on December 6 for a bail hearing, the report adds.