US charges three ‘Iranian operatives’ over UK airbase plot
The trio face eight charges over their alleged involvement in plots supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pro-Iranian group Kataeb Hezbollah.
The US Justice Department has charged three men, described as Iranian operatives, with an alleged terrorist plot targeting Britain's RAF Fairford airbase. The trio - Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani - are accused of orchestrating the scheme in September. Police were alerted to the site in southwest England after a farmer reported seeing a group of men and several white vans behaving suspiciously.
The US charging document alleges that al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, directed individuals to drive to the base in vans containing fuel barrels, while al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi already imprisoned in New York on terrorism charges, allegedly sent coded messages to al-Hassani and Mohajeri, an Iranian national, to prepare for the operation.
The US withdrew all its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford following the incident. The trio face eight charges in an indictment that also links them to other plots supporting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and pro-Iranian group Kataeb Hezbollah.
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