(Representative image): Burnham said that IRGC almost certainly directed a suspected plot targeting RAF Fairford, a British air base used by US bombers to strike Iran, which triggered a security operation on September 27, when dozens of nearby residents were evacuated, and police investigated vans linked to the suspects.
Seven arrested, none charged
Meanwhile, a joint statement issued by the foreign office and signed by more than 25 countries, including the US, also recognised Britain’s attribution of Iranian involvement in the incident. The suspected plot triggered a security operation on September 27, when dozens of nearby residents were evacuated, and police investigated vans linked to the suspects. The incident triggered a major security operation on September 27, when dozens of residents living near the air base were evacuated from their homes.
All have since been released on bail, and no one has been charged so far.
Police later said they had found petrol, an accelerant, in three vans linked to the first five suspects. The UK government also summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest against what it called Tehran’s attempts to undermine British security. Police have arrested seven men in connection with the alleged plot. The suspects are in their 20s. Six are British nationals, while the seventh holds dual British-Iranian citizenship. Armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts were deployed to the rural area. No explosives were found.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost certainly directed a security incident at the US-run RAF Fairford air base in England last month.