Two British nationals have been charged over an alleged plot to assist Iran’s intelligence service as part of the investigation into the suspected terror incident near RAF Fairford.

Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) said Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, of London, would appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service under the National Security Act 2023.

He will appear alongside Nouman Essghir, 24, also of London, who is charged with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK, after initially being arrested at the scene near the Gloucestershire base on 27 September and then re-arrested on 20 October.

CTP said they believed the foreign intelligence service involved in the case was Iran’s.

The assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor, the head of national counter-terrorism policing in the UK, said: “We have seen a range of incidents in recent months that we believe have been directed by the Iranian state, and as the director general of MI5…