Britain’s government accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of being behind a major scare at a UK airbase used by the United States, as allies including Washington warned Tehran against hostile acts, AFP reports.
Iran denied any involvement.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the British parliament that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “almost certainly directed” an incident at the Royal Air Force base of Fairford in southwest England last month.
The US, which had been using the base for its war in Iran, abruptly withdrew all its B-1 bombers from the site last week after the mysterious episode on September 27.
Burnham said Britain’s assessment of the incident was that it “is highly likely to have been coordinated in Iran, almost certainly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard”.
“We will not tolerate these threats on our soil. We will crack down on Iran’s use of criminal networks, using our full range of powers to target them and their funding streams,” he told MPs.
