{
  "id": 19410197,
  "title": "US charges three ‘Iranian operatives’ over UK airbase plot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/us-charges-three-iranian-operatives-over-uk-airbase-plot-19410197",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T22:15:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/world/2026/11/11/us-charges-three-iranian-operatives-over-uk-airbase-plot"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Al-Monitor",
        "title": "US charges three 'Iranian operatives' over UK airbase plot",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/us-charges-three-iranian-operatives-over-uk-airbase-plot",
        "published": "2026-11-10T22:30:23.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "US names, charges three 'Iranian operatives' over UK airbase plot",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/us-names-charges-three-iranian-operatives-over-uk-airbase-plot",
        "published": "2026-11-10T22:44:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "DW News",
        "title": "US charges 3 alleged Iranian operatives over plots targeting Jewish communities and a UK airbase",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/us-charges-3-alleged-iranian-operatives-over-plots-targeting-jewish",
        "published": "2026-11-10T23:18:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}