November 11, 2026
American judicial authorities announced details of an alleged plan to target Fairford Air Base in Britain, where American B-1 strategic bombers are stationed. According to what was reported by the “Russia Today” network, citing judicial sources, federal prosecutors filed charges against Muhammad Daoud al-Saadi, who holds dual Iranian and Iraqi citizenship and is linked to the “Hezbollah Brigades,” of involvement in the conspiracy.
Prosecution sources explained that Al-Saadi ran the operation from inside his cell in the “Metropolitan Detention Center,” a federal prison in Brooklyn, New York, where he had been held since his arrest earlier this year on charges of plots inside the United States and attacks in Europe. Investigations indicate that Al-Saadi used his phone calls with his family to pass encrypted messages and instructions to two other people to participate in preparing the attack.
In a notable judicial development, a grand jury in New York issued a new indictment on Tuesday, attributing the planning of the attack to elements allegedly linked to the Iranian army. They are Mohsen Mohajeri, whom the US authorities described as a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and another Iranian named Muhammad Ali Al-Hassani, along with Al-Saadi.
The threads of the case go back to last September, when the British police received a report about three suspicious vehicles that were heading towards the “Fairford” base, which led to the arrest of seven men on suspicion of involvement in the scheme. Although the detainees were later released under strict conditions because the vehicles were free of explosive materials, CNN quoted informed sources that the alleged plan was based on using those vehicles loaded with fuel as explosive devices to target Al-Qaeda.
The British authorities re-arrested a number of suspects in late October, following strong suspicions that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was involved in the scheme. The new US indictment places the case in a cross-border judicial process, alleging that there was coordination between a prisoner detained in the United States and Iranian elements to target an allied military facility, pending the outcome of the upcoming judicial procedures.
