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I bet a dozen Qottabs no such meeting with the Leader occurred.\u00a0 \u201cIran security chief meets Supreme Leader after talks with Mecca pact countries,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 10-27-26.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverseas Handler Linked to Iran Behind Foiled RAF Air Base Attack,\u201d<\/a> WSJ, 10-27-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBritish prosecutors alleged Tuesday that a man linked to Iran\u2019s intelligence services was behind a plot to target an RAF air base in September, a move that led the U.S. to pull out a dozen heavy bombers based there.\u00a0 Prosecutor Louise Gray told the court that two men charged in connection with the incident at Fairford air base were being handled by an overseas man named \u201cAli\u201d believed to be linked to Iran\u2019s intelligence services.\u00a0 Ali directed the operation, in which several British nationals drove three white vans, two of which were carrying drums of fuel, to just outside the base, Gray said. Shortly after, the handler contacted them to tell them there was a bomb in one of the vans, prompting them to flee and one of the men to call police, she said. \u2026 The incident in September rattled police, who evacuated the area and deployed robots to inspect the vans before declaring that they had only found fuel. U.S. officials have since said they believe the incident was part of a larger plan that involved using drones to attack the bombers. Shortly after, U.S. bombers were flown out of Fairford as a precautionary measure.\u00a0 On Tuesday, police formally charged two British men in connection with the case. Nouman Essghir, 24, a British national from London, was charged with national-security offenses for inspecting a \u201cprohibited space.\u201d Gray, the prosecutor, said Essghir had been tasked by Ali to conduct surveillance on Fairford, which American B-1 bombers used to take off for bombing runs during the continuing conflict with Iran. Essghir was one of five men initially arrested in the case and later released on bail. He was then rearrested and charged formally on Tuesday. Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, a 24-year-old British national, was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, which police suspect to be Iran. Abdulkarim was first arrested in the weeks after the incident at Fairford. … \u00a0Abdulkarim wasn\u2019t among the five men arrested that night. Prosecutors allege he helped organize the plot, acting as a U.K.-based intermediary for Ali. The 24-year-old accessed around \u00a365,000, equivalent to about $86,500, from Ali to purchase the vans and other equipment, such as cellphones, used in the plot. He was later arrested by police. Gray told the court that the two men had been in contact with Ali for years. She said that Ali is also potentially connected to a separate incident earlier this year when an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or the Islamic Movement of the Righteous Companions, posted a video claiming to target the Israeli Embassy in London with drones carrying a dangerous substance. No evidence of chemical weapons was found and police say the embassy wasn\u2019t attacked. The shadowy group also claimed responsibility for a string of antisemitic arson attacks across Europe. U.S. officials believe that a branch of the IRGC recruited British nationals to attempt a complex multistage attack that included using drones to target B-1 bombers at Fairford and a diversion in the neighborhood nearby. Shortly after the initial arrests, the U.S. moved the bombers from Fairford, fearing they remained at risk from further attacks, officials said.\u201d Ali will be Quds Force.\u00a0 In short, this follows the playbook of Iran worldwide.\u00a0 For years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran war updates: Tehran in \u2018close contact\u2019 with mediators on Hormuz plan,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 10-27-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet a dozen Qottabs no such meeting with the Leader occurred.\u00a0 \u201cIran security chief meets Supreme Leader after talks with Mecca pact countries,\u201d Reuters, 10-27-26. \u201cOverseas Handler Linked to Iran Behind Foiled RAF Air Base Attack,\u201d WSJ, 10-27-26.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBritish prosecutors alleged Tuesday that a man linked to Iran\u2019s intelligence services was behind a plot to … <\/p>\n

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