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U.S. Charges Three Iran-Linked Operatives Over Foiled Plot Against RAF Fairford

The unsealed indictment says one suspect directed preparations by sending coded calls from a New York jail, a development that signals cross-border coordination of attacks tied to Iran‑aligned groups.

2024 Photo of al-Saadi in a conference room with guns and map of U.S. and targets (redacted and blurred).
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Caption and photo from www.justice.gov: "Image from an April video of an attack on a London synagogue."

Overview

  • U.S. prosecutors unsealed an eight-count superseding indictment on Nov. 10–11 charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani with terrorism-related offences connected to a September plot at RAF Fairford.
  • The filing alleges al‑Saadi, already held in a federal jail in New York, used phone calls with relatives in Iraq to pass coded messages that coordinated the Fairford operation.
  • Prosecutors say al‑Hassani financed and directed preparatory steps in the United Kingdom, paying associates to surveil the base, buy vans, fuel barrels, chemical accelerants and metal for shrapnel, and disguise vehicles with commercial decals.
  • British police intercepted three suspicious vans near RAF Fairford on Sept. 26–27, seized the vehicles and arrested occupants; UK authorities have separately charged two British men and continue a national security investigation.
  • The indictment links the three men to a wider campaign of nearly 20 attacks in Europe and the U.S., leaves the whereabouts of Mohajeri and al‑Hassani unreported, and has prompted U.S. force‑protection moves and ongoing multinational probes.