U.S. prosecutors charged three men Tuesday, alleging they were Iran-backed operatives who planned attacks on Jewish communities and on RAF Fairford, a British air base where U.S. B-1 bombers had been stationed.
One defendant, Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, is a dual Iranian-Iraqi national held in New York, according to the Guardian. Prosecutors allege he devised the Fairford plot while in custody and sent plans to two alleged co-conspirators to obtain large quantities of chemicals that could be used to make explosives. The Guardian said the alleged plot concerned an attack in September. Deutsche Welle reported that the Fairford incident led to the withdrawal of U.S. bombers from the base.