6th man arrested in RAF Fairford incident has Iranian citizenship
The 25-year-old man is a dual British-Iranian citizen, authorities said in an update.
Police have also carried out searches of two properties in the Gloucestershire, England, area where the RAF base is located.
"The investigation into circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is hugely complex, and our specialist teams are interrogating multiple lines of enquiry," said Vicki Evans, senior national coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing.
"As we've made clear, we're looking at all possible angles -- including possible foreign state involvement."
Police initially reported that the man was 27, but later corrected his age.
The other five men arrested in connection with the incident earlier this week have been released on bail.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced that the incident was a foiled plot whose perpetrators are believed to have ties to Iran.
"There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford," he told the BBC.
Police found no explosive devices in three vans that were stopped near the base, which is used by the U.S. military to launch airstrikes on Iran, but gasoline was found.
7th terror suspect arrested in UK after incident at U.S. military base
British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offence over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran.
The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year’s war.
Counter Terrorism Policing said the man, a British national, was detained in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts.
Six other men have been released on bail under investigation.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing said detectives “continue to pursue multiple lines of enquiry” and “remain committed to investigating all possible angles.”
Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base early on Sept. 27 as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the U.K. sees “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident, without saying why or what the nature of the suspected plot was.
Iran has denied involvement, but it has previously said it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.
The U.S. moved its B-52 and B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford on Sunday, though it’s unclear whether the move is connected to the arrests. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he didn’t want to tempt “the enemy” by having the bombers there.
“We had a threat, and if we’re going to be threatened, we would just move them, and that sort of alleviates that,” he said in Washington. He said that the people who made the threat “would be linked to Iran,” but he didn’t offer details.
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