Overview
- The Justice Department unsealed an eight‑count superseding indictment on Nov. 10 charging Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al‑Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and Mohammad Ali al‑Hassani with terrorism offenses tied to an alleged plot against RAF Fairford and a wider campaign.
- Prosecutors say al‑Saadi, who is in U.S. custody, coordinated parts of the Fairford plan from a New York jail by passing coded messages through family phone calls to co‑conspirators overseas.
- The indictment alleges al‑Hassani funded and directed surveillance in the U.K., arranged the purchase of three vans, barrels of fuel, chemical accelerants and metal shrapnel, and ordered the vans toward the base on Sept. 26–27.
- British police stopped and recovered the three vans and arrested occupants, U.S. aircraft including B‑1 bombers were withdrawn from Fairford, and flight data showed further U.S. movements from RAF Mildenhall as officials reviewed force protection.
- The charges are part of parallel U.S. and U.K. prosecutions that name alleged links to the IRGC and Kata'ib Hizballah, the indictment remains an allegation that must be proved, and two defendants are not in U.S. custody while investigations continue.