According to the federal indictment published on Tuesday, November 10, an agent affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran managed to direct a terrorist plot aimed at attacking American military aircraft in England through "coded messages" in phone calls to his relatives from a prison cell in the United States.
Mohammad al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi citizen who was arrested in Turkey in May and extradited to the United States on charges related to nearly 20 other attacks in Europe, was indicted for plotting against American forces at RAF Fairford. British police previously arrested seven men in connection with this security threat and later released them on bail; A case that has been shrouded in mystery until now, although Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Andy Burnham have publicly emphasized Tehran's involvement in the conspiracy.
According to the new indictment, al-Saadi, with the cooperation of two other defendants, Mohsen Mohajri and Muhammad al-Hasani, who are all known as members of network linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, conveyed his messages through calls to his mother and sister. In these readings, he inquired about the status of "old jobs" and whether they had been stopped or not, and after making sure that things were going on, he asked them to pay Al-Hasani so that the operation would be carried out.
Since August, al-Hasani began recruiting agents, doing logistics and identifying the air base. The defendants prepared vans and by placing fuel barrels, chemical accelerators including potassium chloride and metals as bomb fragments inside them, converted the vehicles into fuel tanks and swimming pools. Three of these vehicles traveled to the Fairford base on 26 September, two of which were stopped at the checkpoint and the rest were confiscated by British police the following day. Trump has criticized the release of the accused on bail, and the US military has moved its bombers to other bases to reduce the risk.