US charges three men it calls Iranian operatives over alleged plot at UK’s RAF Fairford

The US Justice Department has charged three men, an Iranian-Iraqi dual national, an Iranian and an Iraqi, in an eight-count indictment over an alleged September plot at RAF Fairford in England, a base the US military has used in operations against Iran. Prosecutors accuse them of conspiring to provide material support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah.

Prosecutors say one defendant, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, held in New York since May, planned or claimed other attacks in Europe and Canada; he pleaded not guilty to earlier charges in June. Iran has denied any involvement in the Fairford incident and made no immediate comment on the new charges, according to Al Jazeera.