US withdraws B-1 bombers from Britain after Fairford incident

The US withdrew all of its B-1 strategic bombers from Fairford Air Force Base in the UK following the incident. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), this measure is related to security.

Now all these bombers are based in the United States.

It is noteworthy that the US military used the British airbase Fairford as a staging point for launching bombers to carry out attacks on Iran.

The area around the US military base was evacuated

On Sunday, September 27, British Gloucestershire Police began evacuating the Welford area, home to the US Air Force base Fairford, following reports of a major incident.

Later, information emerged about the arrest of five people suspected of “committing crimes under the Explosives Act.” The defendants were taken into custody, and the investigation was entrusted to the county police department for combating terrorism.

It was emphasized that all the detainees were about 20 years old. Four of them lived in Westminster, and another in Camden, north London. "Three suspicious vehicles" attracted attention.

Possible foreign trace

On the morning of October 2, the police announced the arrest of the sixth defendant. He turned out to be a 25-year-old man with British and Iranian citizenship.

Terrorist attack on synagogue thwarted in Britain

Later, information appeared about a foiled terrorist attack near a synagogue in Manchester (UK). According to the case file, Rahman Salehi, 34, and Salam Ahmadian, 36, allegedly studied Jewish sites in Manchester, including the Heaton Park Synagogue and the Jewish Museum. The suspects were detained on September 20, on the eve of Yom Kippur. They were charged with preparing a terrorist act or facilitating its commission, after which the court kept both in custody.

According to investigators, the men maintained contact with a third person who was allegedly in Iran and gave them instructions on how to make a homemade bomb.

Iran threatens to take war with US to Wall Street and Manhattan

On September 1, senior adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, stressed that Iran was fighting a war with the United States in the traditional sense, without yet moving to an asymmetric war.

The military leader emphasized that before there was no such need, since Iran was defending its own territory.

The statement came after US President Donald Trump announced his position on launching a nuclear strike on Iran. “There are no grounds for such a step,” he concluded.