Mo, Mo, & Mo: 3 Charged In Iran-Linked Plot Against British Airbase

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Mo, Mo, & Mo: 3 Charged In Iran-Linked Plot Against British Airbase A longtime operative of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Kata'ib Hizballah sitting in a New York jail used phone…

A longtime operative of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Kata'ib Hizballah sitting in a New York jail used phone calls to his family in Iraq to pass coded messages to the men who allegedly orchestrated September's plot against RAF Fairford, the British air base that housed US bombers, federal prosecutors say.

An eight-count superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan charges Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, 32, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, 48, an Iranian operative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, 35, an Iraqi national, with terrorism offenses tied to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the United States on behalf of Kata'ib Hizballah and the IRGC.

Three days before the vans rolled toward Fairford, on or about Sept. 24, al-Saadi asked his family on a call from jail how "Ali" was doing, according to the Justice Department. Told that "Ali" had been moved to the "International Section," al-Saadi allegedly instructed them to "give him money so we can do it." Prosecutors identify "Ali" as al-Hassani.

"Anyone who plans a terrorist plot on a military base housing American servicemembers will be prosecuted by the United States government," Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

According to the indictment, al-Hassani and Mohajeri were both in Iran during the plot and worked through a network of contacts in Britain. On Aug. 22, al-Hassani allegedly paid one person to surveil the base's perimeter and received videos of the area.

In September, he allegedly tasked and paid several people to buy vans and barrels of fuel, research large quantities of potassium chloride and other chemical accelerants, and buy metal objects that could serve as shrapnel. At his urging, they had custom decals made so the vans looked like they belonged to a fuel delivery business and a swimming pool supply company.

On Sept. 26, al-Hassani allegedly sent three vans, some later found to hold barrels of fuel, toward the…

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