Raven Pleads Guilty: Former U.S. Navy Sailor Planned Attack On Naval Station Great Lakes 

On February 27, 2025, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a former U.S Navy sailor had pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago to plotting an attack on  the Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, Illinois, purportedly on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

According to the Justice Department, Xuanyu Harry Pang, 38, who also went by the name “Raven,” of North Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty to conspiring to and attempting to willfully injure and destroy national defense material, national defense premises, and national defense utilities, with the intent to injure, interfere with, and obstruct the national defense of the United States. 

According to court records, in 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, a general of the IRGC Quds Force who was killed by the U.S. military in 2020.”

In a January 2, 2020 press release, the U.S. Defense Department stated, “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. 

“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.&nb...