Police raided the room of an Iranian national, Madani Seyed Mehrded, in Bangkok's Nasa Vegas hotel on Feb. 26 in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to attack Israeli diplomats. The suspect was tracked through links to the three Feb. 14 explosions that revealed the alleged plot by an Iranian team suspected of targeting Israeli diplomats with improvised explosive devices, assembled as "sticky bombs," in Tbilisi, Georgia, and New Delhi, India. Mehrded's information was found in the SIM cards belonging to two other Iranians, Saeid Moradi and Mohammad Hazaei. Mehrdad was also reportedly seen standing on the same road as the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok on Feb. 14. Moradi, Hazaei and a third man, Sedaghat Zadeh, were all reportedly staying in a rented house southeast of the embassy. A closed-circuit street camera captured footage of their arrival at the Bangkok residence Feb. 14 around 2:20 p.m. when the first explosion occurred. When the three men fled, Moradi took a bag of explosives, which he used to attack a taxi and tried to use against police officers, accidentally detonating a third device that blew off his legs. Hazaei was eventually detained waiting for a flight to Malaysia at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Zadeh was arrested in Malaysia and is in the process of extradition. The house from which they fled was rented by an Iranian woman who lived in a room in the Nasa Vegas hotel, where investigators discovered documentation and stickers with the word "Sejeal" associated with the plot. More than 50 stickers were reportedly found on electricity posts and billboards along the road parallel to Wireless Road, where many foreign embassies are located. The stickers are suspected to be a part of the plot, but their exact purpose is still unclear.
