The US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged three Iran-backed operatives with plotting in the US and Europe. Iranian agents “orchestrated a terrorist plot at an air force base in the United Kingdom” in September near RAF Fairford, where US personnel were stationed, according to the DOJ.
One Iranian-Iraqi prisoner in New York is suspected of interacting with UK associates while awaiting trial. The other two are suspected of doing so from Iran. Iran maintains its innocence in the RAF Fairford affair.
Seven guys were arrested in the UK after suspicious vans were discovered near the RAF base. The DOJ said on Tuesday that Iranian Mohsen Mohajeri, Iraqi Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, and dual Iranian-Iraqi citizen Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi were indicted.
The trio is accused of preparing attacks in Europe under the codename Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand – HAYI). The DOJ statement said HAYI claimed responsibility for 18 European terrorist assaults in spring 2026, seven of which were in the UK. It said the attacks involved “arson, explosives, and in one instance, a near-fatal stabbing in London of two Jewish men, including a dual US-British citizen”.
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