Coded messages from jail cell: How alleged Iranian operative coordinated foiled RAF Fairford terror plot
American and British authorities suspected an Iranian link to the foiled terror plot, while Tehran has denied any involvement in the case.
Three men allegedly linked to Iran have been charged in connection with a terror plot foiled at RAF Fairford in the UK on September 27. The incident involved suspicious vans near the airbase containing fuel barrels, leading authorities to suspect an Iranian connection. American and British officials believed the plot was orchestrated by Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The US Justice Department unsealed an eight-count superseding indictment against Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, an Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national. Al-Saadi, currently in jail awaiting trial, is accused of sending coded messages from his New York cell to coordinate the plot.
Prosecutors claim al-Saadi used nicknames to direct family members in Iraq to transfer money and pass along "work" messages, believed to refer to terrorist attacks. Al-Saadi was also reportedly close to Qasem Soleimani and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's former Supreme Leader.
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