The images that show how Iran terror suspect ‘plotted attacks on the UK’

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US prosecutors allege three men linked to an Iran-backed militia plotted multiple attacks across Europe, and the US, including arson attacks in London and at a RAF base, using FaceTime

Video stills released in an US indictment of a terror suspect from an Iran-backed militia allegedly show attacks on targets in London being carried out and directed on FaceTime.

Iraqi national Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, 32, is accused of trying ⁠to pass coded ​messages while under arrest to ⁠two other alleged Iran-backed operatives, one of whom plotted to attack RAF Fairford, the US Justice Department has alleged.

Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, 35, is accused of having “orchestrated a terrorist plot at a Royal Air Force Base” housing US military and personnel, and of using his criminal connections in the UK to carry out terrorist attacks.

He and Mohsen Mohajeri, 48, an Iranian national accused of being an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operative, along with Al-Saadi, are accused of 18 attacks or attempted attacks across the US and Europe, including seven in London.

The attacks were purportedly claimed by a new terrorist group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (Hayi).

But the indictment alleges the attacks were carried out on behalf of an Iran-backed terror network that included the IRGC and the Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah.

The indictment claims Al-Hassani and Mohajeri were allegedly in Iran at the time of the RAF Fairford plot while Al-Saadi coordinated the pair from a prison in New York.

A federal grand jury in New York has charged all three with terrorism-related offences.

Al-Saadi is accused of being a commander in Kata’ib Hizballah, acting alongside the IRGC and working with US-designated terrorist leaders, including Esmail Qaani, the commander of the IRGC-QF, and Naim Qassem, the Secretary General of Hezbollah.

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