British Prime Minister Andy Burnham addressed the House of Commons on Monday, stating that the UK government has concluded that a recent security threat against the RAF Fairford base was "almost certainly" directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The base, which hosts U.S. strategic bombers, became the subject of heightened security concerns approximately ten days ago when a dozen B-1 bombers were evacuated from the facility.

During his address, Burnham emphasized that the UK would not tolerate threats on its soil, marking a significant escalation in official rhetoric regarding the incident. While the Prime Minister provided a definitive assessment of the plot's origin, he did not detail the specific intelligence that led to this conclusion. The evacuation of the U.S. aircraft suggests that both American and British intelligence services viewed the threat as credible enough to warrant the removal of high-value military assets from the site. This announcement represents the first time the British government has explicitly named Iran as the entity behind the alleged planned attack. The situation remains a point of high tension, as the attribution directly implicates a state-backed military organization in an attempt to target Western military infrastructure on British territory.