US charges three Iran-backed men over an alleged terror plot targeting RAF Fairford, the British air base that housed American bombers.
The Justice Department unsealed an eight-count indictment in Manhattan on Tuesday, charging the three men over a campaign of nearly twenty attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States. Prosecutors say they acted for an Iran-aligned network including Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Kataib Hezbollah. At the centre of the case is a September plot against RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, where three vans were driven toward the base. Prosecutors allege the vans, filled with fuel, were intended as vehicle bombs, and that one of the men coordinated the plot from inside a federal jail in New York. The charges carry up to life in prison. Iran has strongly denied any involvement, and prosecutors stress the indictment is only an allegation.
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