US prosecutors indict Iran-backed trio for plot against RAF Fairford and Jewish sites
U. S. prosecutors in the Southern District of New York indicted three men for an Iran-backed campaign that included a September plot to attack RAF Fairford, a British airfield used by American forces, and coordinated attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the United States.
The superseding indictment alleges the suspects conspired with Iran-aligned groups to plan nearly 20 attacks on Jewish sites and the assault on the base, and one operative allegedly used coded phone calls from a Brooklyn detention center to direct the Fairford plot. Earlier reports said the indictment also covered plots against Jewish sites across the continent, linking the three suspects to a broader Iran-supported terrorist network. The case follows earlier statements from federal prosecutors that Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi coordinated the failed Fairford operation while detained in New York, and that the trio’s activities were part of a larger Iran-backed effort targeting both Western military installations and Jewish institutions.
