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UPDATE: 7:30 PM CEST
MI5 Chief Says Iran Is Targeting Military Sites and Suspected Plot at RAF Fairford Is ‘Not Unique’
Iran is trying to hit military sites in Britain and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is “not unique,” the head of the MI5 spy agency said Tuesday, as he warned that both Tehran and Moscow are expanding their attacks against the U.K.
Ken McCallum, who leads the U.K.’s domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country’s Islamic authorities.
That has included arson and sabotage attacks on Jewish sites that Britain says were carried out by Iranian proxies.
McCallum said another “major shift this year has been Iranian ambitions to come at harder targets, like military sites.”
The incident at RAF Fairford “is not unique. There have been other examples, not just in the U.K. but around the world,” McCallum said.
UPDATE: 6:30 PM CEST
Settlement Agreement between the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and Bank of America, N.A.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced an $11,662,930 settlement with Bank of America, N.A. Bank of America agreed to settle its potential civil liability for 475 apparent violations of OFAC sanctions programs targeting Russia, Belarus, Iran, Burma, Somalia, narcotics, and global terrorism. The apparent violations occurred when Bank of America processed payments involving blocked banks, failed to appropriately prioritize alerts for customers who were exact name- and date of birth-matches to blocked persons, failed to promptly update watchlists following OFAC designations, and mishandled two business accounts associated with blocked persons due to human error. The settlement amount reflects OFAC’s determination that Bank of America’s apparent violations were non-egregious but largely not voluntarily self-disclosed. For more information, please see the following Enforcement Release.
UPDATE: 7:00 AM CEST
Iran’s Regime Expands Overseas Terror Operations Toward Strategic Western Targets
WASHINGTON, DC — October 13, 2026 — Britain has publicly attributed a suspected plot involving a military facility to the Iranian regime, as British security authorities warn that Tehran is pursuing increasingly ambitious operations abroad. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that the suspected September 27 plot was “highly likely” coordinated in Iran and “almost certainly” directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
British internal security authorities have also assessed that Tehran-linked networks are moving toward more consequential targets, including sensitive and strategic facilities. The assessment points to a broader evolution in the regime’s overseas operations, increasingly involving proxies, hired operatives, and criminal networks.
The United States joined Britain and 27 other governments on October 12 in a joint condemnation of the Iranian regime’s overseas activities, including lethal plotting, arson, sabotage, cyberattacks, and other hybrid operations.
The statement said the September 27 incident demonstrated the IRGC’s continued willingness to project hostile activity beyond Iran through covert networks and proxy actors. It also cited threats against Iranian dissidents, journalists, Jewish communities, and Western interests.
Iran’s Ruling Establishment Confronts a Generation That Rejects Supreme Leadership
Zarif Nuclear Remarks Draw Backlash as 35 Iranian Lawmakers Back Move To Impeach Foreign Minister
Reactions to Mohammad Javad Zarif’s remarks on nuclear deterrence, alongside pressure on Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, have made divisions over negotiations with the United States and Iran’s foreign-policy direction more visible among figures and institutions of the Islamic Republic.
The republication of remarks by Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s former foreign minister, questioning the effectiveness of nuclear weapons as a deterrent has prompted a new wave of criticism from conservative media. At the same time, 35 lawmakers have backed a motion to impeach Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, with some of the allegations focusing on his contacts with US officials and the government’s diplomatic course.
The developments come as Iran’s foreign policy, particularly its approach toward the United States, has once again become a subject of contention.
Iranian Resistance Supporters Run in Paris to Demand End to Executions in Iran
Paris, France – October 10, 2026 – On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, supporters of the Iranian Resistance and human rights advocates took part in a 3.5-kilometer run at Parc Montsouris in Paris to condemn executions in Iran and launch a global call for the abolition of all death sentences in the country.
Wearing vests bearing the slogans “No to Executions” and “Stop Executions in Iran,” participants condemned the Iranian regime’s use of capital punishment as a tool of repression. They called for an immediate end to executions, particularly for political prisoners and protesters arrested during nationwide uprisings.
Organizers said at least 45 political prisoners, including nine supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), have been executed since the beginning of 2026.
Demonstrators demanded the abolition of the death penalty, the release of all political prisoners, an end to state violence, and the establishment of a democratic republic in Iran. They expressed solidarity with political prisoners and those facing execution, reaffirming their commitment to a democratic future for the Iranian people.