Washington: The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted three men for their alleged involvement in nearly 20 executed and attempted terrorist attacks across the US and Europe, including a foiled plot targeting a British Royal Air Force (RAF) base housing American troops at Fairford, US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday.
According to the Department, the three individuals have been charged with serious terrorism-related offences, including providing material support to two designated Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs).
Among the operations detailed by prosecutors was an attempted September 2026 terrorist plot directed against the Fairford Base, where American military personnel were stationed.
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According to a press release issued by the DOJ, the three individuals have been identified as Al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and al-Hassani - who conspired to carry out hostile operations on behalf of the two designated Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs).
Neither of the other two men, Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national, and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, are in US custody.
US attorney says men sought to unleash a campaign of terror
“These defendants helped orchestrate a campaign of terror on behalf of terrorist organisations affiliated with Iran that targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, and the British military base, RAF Fairford, housing American service members,” said Manhattan US Attorney Jamie McDonald. "The threat presented by Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups to America and our allies is not hypothetical -- it is very real.”
Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “Anyone who plans a terrorist plot on a military base housing American service members will be prosecuted by the United States government.”
Six men initially arrested in the United Kingdom in connection with the incident at the RAF Base in Fairford were all released on bail, but two were later re-arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service and were charged under the National Security Act, British authorities said.
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British authorities linked the incident to Tehran, and though Iran denied involvement, the arrests prompted the US to withdraw its bombers that had been stationed there. The bombers were redeployed to the United States.
RAF Fairford, about 160 kilometres west of London, has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in in West Asia.
The case against the three men
According to the allegations contained in the superseding indictment and other court filings: Al-Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri, and al-Hassani allegedly conspired to commit terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States on behalf of an Iran-aligned terrorist network, which included the IRGC and Kata’ib Hizballah.
Most recently, in approximately September 2026, al-Hassani allegedly orchestrated a terrorist plot at the RAF Fairford base, which, at the time of the attempted attack, housed US military aircraft and personnel, the release said.
Al-Hassani and Mohajeri, both of whom were in Iran at the time of the planned attack against the RAF Base, allegedly relied on a network of contacts in the United Kingdom.
Al-Saadi, who was imprisoned and awaiting trial on pending terrorism charges in the Southern District of New York, attempted to coordinate with al-Hassani and Mohajeri from jail by passing coded messages through third parties. According to prosecutors, al-Saadi used coded language in phone and video calls to his mother and sister in Iraq to pass messages encouraging associates to carry out the air base bombing.
Both the IRGC and the Iraqi militia Kata’ib Hizballah remain designated as Foreign Terrorist Organisations under US law.
(With inputs from AP via PTI & ANI)
