Imprisoned Iranian in US Directed Plot to Attack British Air Base
US federal prosecutors revealed details of a plot masterminded by an Iranian inmate in a New York prison to target a British air base using car bombs.
US federal prosecutors announced details of a security conspiracy targeting a British air base, indicating that an Iranian leader imprisoned in New York managed the attack.
The new indictment showed that the prisoner gave direct instructions to two individuals to execute the operation using car bombs, utilizing encrypted calls with his family to manage the plot from inside his cell.
Meanwhile, British police arrested seven suspects connected to the plot before initially releasing them.
Authorities later re-arrested the suspects after confirming their ties to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.