The incident triggered evacuations in Gloucestershire in September after three vans were found near the US-operated air base.
\n\nIran is seeking to expand its targeting ambitions in Britain to include military installations, MI5 chief Ken McCallum warned on Tuesday, describing the suspected plot at RAF Fairford as “not unique”. McCallum, the head of Britain's domestic intelligence service, said Tehran's activities were moving beyond traditional targets, including Iranian dissidents opposed to the country's leadership.
\n\nHe also pointed to arson and sabotage attacks against Jewish sites that British authorities have attributed to Iranian proxies. A “major shift this year” had been Iran's ambition to target “harder targets, like military sites”, McCallum said, adding that similar incidents had occurred outside Britain as well.
\n\nHis warning comes as counter-terrorism investigators continue to examine a suspected plot involving RAF Fairford, a US-operated air base in Gloucestershire that American forces used during strikes against Iran earlier this year.
\n\nOn September 27, residents near the base were evacuated as armed police and military bomb-disposal specialists responded to a security alert involving three vans. Police subsequently reported finding petrol in the vehicles, but no explosives. Seven men in their 20s have been arrested in connection with the investigation…
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