UK PM Burnham says Iran’s IRGC ‘highly likely’ to have been behind RAF Fairford incident

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were highly likely to have coordinated a suspected plot targeting RAF Fairford. Five British men were arrested near the airbase, which has been used by US bombers involved in strikes on Iran.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford airbase in Britain was “highly likely” to have been coordinated in Iran, and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The RAF Fairford base in southwest England, which had been used by US bombers to carry out strikes on Iran, became the focal point for a major ‌security response after five British men were arrested nearby in the early hours of September 27 on...