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U.S. Indicts Three Over Alleged Iran-Linked Plot Against RAF Fairford
- On Tuesday, U.S. authorities unsealed a superseding indictment charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, with plotting nearly 20 attacks targeting Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S. and a planned assault on RAF Fairford.
- From a New York federal jail, al-Saadi allegedly used coded language in calls to family members to direct co-conspirators in the attack while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
- The plot centers on a September 27 incident when authorities detained five men after three suspicious vans were spotted traveling toward the base, prompting the U.S. military to withdraw its bombers from RAF Fairford.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that 'Anyone who plans a terrorist plot on a military base housing American service members will be prosecuted,' citing the defendants' ties to designated terrorist groups Kataib Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- Officials describe the conspiracy as a 'campaign of terror' spanning Europe and the U.S., though Iran has denied any role in the suspected plot, which prosecutors linked to a broader series of targeted attacks.
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