CNN reported that the American prosecutors accused Mohammad Bakr Saad Daoud al-Saadi, an Iranian-Iraqi citizen linked to Kataib Hezbollah, of directing the attack on the British Farford Air Base from a prison in New York.

CNN reported that the American prosecutors accused Mohammad Bakr Saad Daoud al-Saadi, an Iranian-Iraqi citizen linked to Kataib Hezbollah, of directing the attack on the British Farford Air Base from a prison in New York.

According to the indictment, al-Saadi coordinated this plan with Mohsen Mohajri, an agent of the Revolutionary Guards, and Muhammad Ali al-Hasani, and ordered the transfer of funds and the execution of the operation through coded messages to his family. Al-Hasani also paid for the identification of the base and the supply of vans and fuel barrels. CNN sources said the fuel vans were intended to be used as bombs.

CNN also reported that al-Saadi worked closely with Qassem Soleimani, the former IRGC Quds Force commander, for years. Prosecutors said he was "like a son" to Soleimani and was supposed to be with Soleimani when he was killed in a US strike in 2020.