(The Center Square) – Three Iranian men have been indicted on terrorism charges in New York, including for a plan to commit a terrorist attack at a British Royal Air Force Base in the U.K. to kill American servicemen and women, federal authorities said.
An eight-count superseding indictment was unsealed Tuesday charging the Iranian men with supporting Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The U.S. government has designated both as foreign terrorist organizations.
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