{"id":298383,"date":"2026-10-20T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/2-men-rearrested-in-uk-on-suspicion-of-assisting-iran-over-suspected-plot-at-a-us-run-air-base\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:28:06","slug":"2-men-rearrested-in-uk-on-suspicion-of-assisting-iran-over-suspected-plot-at-a-us-run-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/2-men-rearrested-in-uk-on-suspicion-of-assisting-iran-over-suspected-plot-at-a-us-run-air-base\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men rearrested in UK on suspicion of assisting Iran over suspected plot at a US-run air base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod\/images\/44c22b2d-2168-48b8-9184-c3c583d2cc25.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">LONDON, England<!-- --> \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">British police said Tuesday they have rearrested two men on suspicion of assisting Iran\u2019s intelligence service over the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-air-base-us-fairford-security-incident-arrests-1f9542e3e4e11fc5660f088b8750bb34\" rel=\"nofollow\">suspected plot at a U.S.-run air base<\/a> in England last month.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Counter Terrorism Policing said the men, a 24-year-old British national and a 25-year-old dual U.K.-Iranian national, were arrested under the National Security Act.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The men were earlier arrested but had been bailed pending more investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police are investigating a suspected terror plot on Sept. 27 against the U.S.-run base at RAF Fairford in western England, which has been used to bomb Iran during this year\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swarmed the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant \u2014 gasoline \u2014 in three vans at the site, but no explosives.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">British authorities have linked Tehran to the incident, which led the U.S. to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bombers-raf-fairford-iran-5280111d976b89a6245f277e8b899f8f\" rel=\"nofollow\">pull its bombers<\/a> from RAF Fairford.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Five other men who were also arrested earlier remain on bail. No one has yet been charged.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K., said detectives are looking at \u201cmany lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">\u201cThis is very much a live investigation, and our evidence gathering continues, but at this time our position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">\u201cOur investigators are continuing to examine what that level of involvement was and the ambition behind it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/iran-air-base-uk-plot\/74194769\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, England \u2014 British police said Tuesday they have rearrested two men on suspicion of assisting Iran\u2019s intelligence service over the suspected plot at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}