Terror suspects accused of targeting London 'wanted missiles and drones' from Iran

Two men suspected of plotting a string of terror attacks including on London wanted to acquire missiles and drones, according to legal documents.

A Police forensics officer photographs shoes and clothes at a crime scene on Golders Green Road, Golders Green, north London, on April 29, 2026, after two people were stabbed

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They state that Mohajeri, 48, is an operative of the IRGC military force, accused of being Iran’s main exporter of terrorism.

Al-Saadi, 32, is alleged to have conspired and urged other people for nearly a decade to commit violent attacks against the US and its citizens “on behalf of terrorist organisations, including multiple global terror proxies for the Iranian regime”.

“In early March 2026, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi and Mohsen Mohajeri, the defendants, began plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe,” says the indictment.

“To do so, al-Saadi and Mohajeri, who was officially a member of the IRGC from at least in or about 2004, discussed procuring drones and missiles from Mohajeri's IRGC contacts and broader network in Iran.”

Men in hazmat suits and a drone allegedly used in a propaganda video on an ‘attack’ on Israel’s Embassy in London which did not happen

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It is not clear if they ever managed to obtain these weapons.

But drones featured in one of the alleged propaganda plots, the purported strike on Israel’s embassy in London.

No drones were found but the area around the embassy, including Kensington Gardens, was sealed off as police checked for any deadly weapons.

It was one of several incidents allegedly carried out by a new terrorist group with the pseudonym Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI), which was allegedly a front for Kata’ib Hizballah, according to the legal papers.

Al-Hassani, 35, an Iraqi citizen who had lived in the UK, is alleged to have used his contacts and criminal associates to carry out terror attacks in Britain.

A 2024 Photo of al-Saadi in a conference room with guns and maps of America and targets, according to US Justice Department

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The DOJ claims al-Saadi was involved in plots from behind bars in Brooklyn jail, including on the RAF base, by allegedly passing on messages through his family, referring to planned attacks as “work”.

Seven people have been arrested and bailed in the UK over the incident at the West Country airbase, which was used by US bombers for airstrikes on Iran, after three suspicious vans were stopped near the site on September 27.

Police seized a quantity of petrol but found no explosive materials in the vans.

Al-Hassani is accused of paying an unnamed individual to “perform pre-operational surveillance of RAF Fairford’s perimeter”.

He also allegedly “tasked and paid several individuals to help him prepare for the plot, including by procuring vans and barrels of fuel, researching the purchase of chemical accelerants, including large quantities of potassium chloride, and purchasing metallic objects that could be used as explosive shrapnel”.

Mohammad Ali al-Hassani (left) and Mohsen Mohajeri (right) looking at a map of London, according to the US Department of Justice

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He instructed those individuals to outfit the vans “to create the appearance that they were used by a fuel delivery business and a swimming pool supply business”, according to the DOJ.

He was allegedly “in frequent communication” with the drivers of the vans the morning of the incident.