The U.S. Department of Justice has charged three Iran-backed operatives in connection with a string of plots, including a September terror plot targeting the British air base RAF Fairford.
Yesterday it emerged that the Pentagon had withdrawn at least a dozen aircraft from a Royal Air Force base in Suffolk after Iranian threats to US military sites.
This comes after concerns that Iran is planning further attacks on US airbases in the UK.
Nine air-to-air refuelling tankers were among those moved from RAF Mildenhall to other bases in the UK, Germany and Spain on Monday.
The evacuation was prompted by concern from US authorities about the security threat from Tehran.
Emboldened by the chaos caused by a plot to target RAF Fairford in September, the hostile state now has ambitions to carry out similar low-level attacks on other US airbases using criminal proxies in the UK.
The US is likely to continue moving aircraft as it takes an extremely risk-averse approach to any threat to its expensive assets or personnel.
Even though there was no direct threat to RAF Mildenhall, but the Pentagon didn’t want to take any chances on learning Iran is planning to further target US military sites.
RAF Mildenhall hosts the 100th Air Refuelling Wing, the only permanent US refuelling wing in the European combat zone. It operates the KC-135 Stratotanker.
