Overview
- The Justice Department unsealed an eight-count superseding indictment Tuesday charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani with terrorism-related offenses tied to Iran‑affiliated groups.
- Prosecutors allege al‑Saadi, who is in U.S. custody, used phone calls to relatives in Iraq to relay coded instructions to co‑defendants in the days before the September approach toward RAF Fairford.
- The indictment says al‑Hassani funded and directed logistics in the United Kingdom, including surveillance and the purchase of three vans, barrels of fuel, chemical accelerant research and metal for shrapnel, and that the vans were driven toward the base on Sept. 26 before being stopped and seized.
- British police detained multiple people after the September incident and later charged two men under the UK National Security Act while U.S. military aircraft were temporarily moved from RAF Fairford and RAF Mildenhall for force‑protection reasons.
- U.S. and UK officials have publicly linked the plot to Iran‑aligned groups while Tehran denies involvement, prosecutions and cross‑border investigations are continuing, and some details such as the whereabouts of Mohajeri and al‑Hassani remain unconfirmed.