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Two men have been charged with UK national-security offences after an incident near RAF Fairford, according to reporting by BBC News, Deutsche Welle and The Guardian.

The incident took place in September, according to the supplied reporting. The Crown Prosecution Service said the men were charged under the UK National Security Act 2023. The sources agree on the charging development but provide no further details of what happened near the air base.

The Guardian identified the defendants as Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both 24. According to the newspaper, one man was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and the other with entering a prohibited place.

Deutsche Welle reported that police suspect Iranian involvement in the case. That account presents the possible connection to Iran as a police suspicion, not as a confirmed finding in the supplied material.

The Guardian report does not specify which charge was assigned to Abdulkarim and which was assigned to Essghir. The available reporting therefore establishes the two offences and the identities of the defendants, but not the individual charge allocation.

SOURCES

  1. The GuardianTwo men charged with national security offences over RAF Fairford incident
  2. BBC NewsTwo men charged under National Security Act after RAF Fairford incident
  3. Deutsche WelleTwo men face UK national security charges following an incident near RAF Fairford, with police suspecting Iranian state involvement