Indicted operative Mohammed Al Saadi communicated from federal custody in New York using phone calls to pass coded messages supporting the RAF Fairford base plot

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Mohammed Al Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and Mohammed Ali Alhasani with operating on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Kataib Hezbollah

The United States Department of Justice indicted three Iran-backed operatives for orchestrating nearly 20 terror plots across Europe and the United States

Seven alleged terror attacks tied to three indicted Iranian-backed operatives took place in Britain, involving arson, explosives, and the stabbing of two Jewish men in London

British police determined an espionage investigation involving a United States soldier was not connected to Iranian-backed terror plots

On September 26, 2026, British authorities disrupted a plot against the Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire that houses United States military personnel

In April 2026, operatives located in Iraq used FaceTime video to coordinate an arson attack in Britain in real time

The October 1983 Beirut barracks truck bombing killed 241 United States military personnel during the Ronald Reagan administration

In late September 2026, an Iranian plot targeted bombers and military personnel at the RAF Fairford base in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom government stated that the Iranian state was suspected of being behind an attempted attack at RAF Fairford

The Muslim Students Association was designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation federal terror financing trial

In 2001, President George W. Bush officially designated the Holy Land Foundation as a terrorist organization and closed its operations

In 2008, federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation trial proved that a Hamas-linked fundraising network operated on United States territory

The Council on American-Islamic Relations began publicly characterizing United States government counterterrorism initiatives as Islamophobic in the mid-1990s

Cedric King was conducting reconnaissance on a Taliban building containing bomb-making materials when an improvised explosive device detonated

British prosecutors charged two British nationals with national security offenses connected to an attempted attack on a United Kingdom military base housing United States military aircraft

British police identified Iran as the foreign intelligence service suspected of involvement in a security breach at a United Kingdom military base

Six men arrested in connection with a security breach at a United Kingdom military base were released on bail without charges

British prosecutors charged one suspect with inspecting a prohibited space and another suspect with assisting a foreign intelligence service in connection with a United Kingdom military base breach

The Omani pilot who attempted to crash a FlyDubai plane into Tel Aviv had previously been terminated from an Omani airline due to Islamic radicalism

The Omani pilot who attempted to crash a FlyDubai flight into Tel Aviv had previously entered Israel multiple times without interception by border security