The US has charged three men described as “Iranian agents” over an alleged terror plot involving an airbase in the UK. According to the US Department of Justice, prosecutors accuse Mohammads Baker Saad Davoud al Saadi, Mohsen Mohajeri and Mohammads Ali al Hasani of playing roles in a conspiracy linked to the Ferford air force base. The charges relate to an incident reported after police were called to the area on 27 September, when officers stopped three vans and several people. British authorities called the incident serious, but it remained unclear what was being planned. Investigators said they did not find explosives in the vehicles, but they did find a small amount of petrol. US prosecutors allege Hasani, a 35-year-old man with Iraqi citizenship, gave instructions to unnamed people to travel to the base with vans. The indictment says he had previously paid the group to buy metallic items that could be used as shrapnel, and to disguise their involvement when supplying fuel delivery vehicles. The DOJ also alleges Saadi, 32, who holds dual citizenship of Iran and Iraq, passed encoded messages to Hasani and a 48-year-old Iranian man, Mohajeri, to coordinate actions before the conspiracy was carried out. Saadi has been held since May in a New York jail on terrorism-related charges. The case prompted consequences for the US military presence at Ferford, with the US moving all its B-1 bombers out of the base a few days after the incident. The men have been charged on eight counts, including involvement in other conspiracies, support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the pro-Iranian group “Kataeb Hezbollah”. British police later charged two people in connection with the same incident in October. The latest status is that the three men have been charged in the United States, with at least one defendant already in custody in New York. The investigation and related prosecution are continuing.