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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 AzamovaMI5 director Ken McCallum said in his annual speech that Russia remains the 'aggressor number one' and is waging hybrid warfare against Europe while staying below NATO's Article 5 threshold. He also reported more than 50 arrests in Iran-related cases and an incident at RAF Fairford, which Prime Minister Andy Burnham linked to the IRGC.
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