Overview
- The Justice Department unsealed an eight‑count superseding indictment on Tuesday that names Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani in a foiled plan to attack a British air base hosting U.S. forces.
- Prosecutors allege al‑Saadi, who is in federal custody in New York, relayed coded instructions through family phone calls to co‑defendants and kept directing operations from jail.
- The filing says al‑Hassani arranged surveillance, paid associates in the U.K. to obtain three vans, barrels of fuel, chemical accelerants and metal to act as shrapnel, and that those vans were stopped and seized by British police in late September.
- Mohajeri and al‑Hassani are not reported to be in U.S. custody and U.K. investigators have separately charged and questioned several people under Britain’s National Security Act as inquiries and evidence gathering continue.
- U.S. authorities link the three to a wider Iran‑aligned campaign tied to the IRGC and Kata'ib Hizballah that prosecutors say plotted nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and North America, a development that has prompted aircraft relocations and heightened diplomatic friction with Tehran.