Two men were charged under the UK’s National Security Act on Oct. 27 over last month’s incident at a military base, with prosecutors accusing the pair of attempting to help Iranian intelligence in Britain.
RAF Fairford had been used by U.S. bombers to carry out strikes on Iran. The airplanes were removed by the Pentagon shortly after five men, described as British citizens, were arrested outside the base in southwest England in the early hours of Sept. 27.
Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, 24, a British national, has been charged with engaging in conduct likely to materially assist a foreign intelligence service between Aug. 31 and Sept. 28, with counter-terror police saying the country is believed to be Iran….