Two Iranian men and their Kenyan driver, an employee of the Iranian embassy in Nairobi, were charged on Thursday with collecting information for plans to carry out a terrorist attack after they were found with video footage of the Israeli embassy in Kenya.
Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahim, Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee, and driver Moses Keyah Mmboga were arrested in an Iranian diplomatic car after taking video clips of the Israeli embassy on a cell phone "for the use in the commission of a terrorist act," Reuters reported, citing court papers.
The three were detained in Nairobi on Tuesday. They had been visiting Kamiti Prison earlier in the day to meet with two other Iranians who have spent 15 years imprisoned on terrorism charges, the Time of Israel reported.
Kenya has previously suffered attacks against Israeli targets. In 2002, terrorists bombed an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya's second largest city, Mombasa, killing 15 people.
In 2013, two Iranian nationals were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets in Kenya. The sentence was reduced to 15 years.