New evidence points to Iranian responsibility for Diaspora antisemitic attacks

Shortly after midnight last Sunday morning, a local resident in an English country village outside RAF Fairford contacted the police to inform them that three white vans were parked near her driveway – and that she had seen masked men. Armed police arrived accompanied by sniffer robots on the lookout for explosives. Five Londoners in their early to mid-twenties were subsequently arrested.

RAF Fairford has been the home of American B-1 bombers which have attacked Iran and the Straits of Hormuz. The Americans were allowed to use this RAF base because of its long runway.

With information from British Authorities about this episode still sparse and the five men have been bailed, the immediate suspicion fell upon Iranian intelligence and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), despite a denial from the Iranian Embassy in London.

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, subsequently hinted that ‘a foreign actor…was clearly involved’ but whether this is yet another fantasy, emanating from the Trump White House, has yet to be determined through a methodical investigation. 

In the UK, the suspicion is that all this could indeed be part and parcel of ‘a grey, hybrid war involving proxies or individuals who, knowingly or unknowingly’, have been working on behalf of Iran. Are the five young men simply ‘useful idiots’ who have been taken advantage of by hostile forces? Any chain stretching back to Teheran therefore requires a detailed investigation. Following the attack in Golders Green when the Hatzolah ambulances were torched, British Jews are awaiting the outcome because they perceive themselves and their institutions to be a prime target for an attack by the Iranians.