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A month after the incident at the UK's RAF Fairford base, charges have been brought against two 24-year-old men: one for assisting a foreign intelligence service (police believe it to be Iran), the other for entering a prohibited site. Another detainee has been released without charge.
Aziz KarimovUK counter-terrorism police re-arrested a 24-year-old Briton and a 25-year-old British-Iranian dual national on suspicion of aiding a foreign intelligence service under the National Security Act 2023. The investigation is linked to an incident near RAF Fairford base on 27 September, when suspicious vans containing petrol were discovered. Seven people in total have been arrested, all released on bail without charges. Police consider Iranian state involvement 'highly likely'; Tehran rejects these claims.
Sevara Azamova19-year-old Johannes Natland was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court to 20 years' imprisonment for conspiracy to murder. He arrived in the UK in March 2025 on a mission for the Swedish criminal network Foxtrot Network, which US and British authorities link to the Iranian regime, and was arrested at a hotel in Huddersfield with two pistols and 19 rounds of ammunition. The identity of the intended victim was never established.
Aziz Karimov
