US charges 3 over Iran-backed plot targeting RAF Fairford

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged three men they say worked for Iran-backed groups in a terror campaign spanning Europe, the United States and a British air base used by U.S. forces. The superseding indictment names Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani. Prosecutors allege al-Saadi, already in U.S. custody, used coded calls from a Brooklyn detention center to help coordinate the September plot against RAF Fairford in western England. The case follows the detention of six men in Britain after suspicious vans approached the base. U.S. authorities say the network was tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Kata'ib Hizballah and had targeted Jewish communities as well as a New York synagogue.