Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, caput of Counter Terrorism Policing, said connected Monday day that the 3 "suspicious vehicles" had been "subject to extended examination, with the enactment of subject assets and forensic experts".
Officers were considering the incidental "from each imaginable angle", including that "this whitethorn beryllium enactment committed by proxies, oregon individuals either knowingly oregon unknowingly, moving connected behalf of a overseas state", helium added.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham chaired a Cobra gathering connected Monday day and urged radical "not to speculate portion the authorities found the afloat facts".
The Iranian embassy successful London said it "categorically rejects and powerfully condemns" what it called "unfounded and malicious speculations" linking Iran to the incident, adding that these would "serve nary intent different than to substance Iranophobia propaganda successful the UK".
The embassy said Iran "reserves the close to instrumentality due ineligible measures, arsenic necessary, to safeguard the rights and interests of the state and its radical successful effect to misleading and damaging media narratives".
The RAF basal has been utilized arsenic a guardant operating determination by the US Air Force (USAF) for decades.
In caller months, US bombers person taken disconnected from the basal for the Middle East, aft the UK approved a US petition to usage it for antiaircraft strikes connected Iran.
In July, Iran said "any basal utilized for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a morganatic people for our forces".
Late connected Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a TV amusement that it was wide a "foreign actor" had been progressive successful events implicit the weekend.
Without providing grounds oregon giving further details, helium told Fox News network's "Hannity" programme: "What happened, what astir happened, what could person happened successful the UK implicit the play is simply a precise superior situation. It's 1 that intelligibly involves the hands of a overseas actor."
Speaking earlier astatine the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said helium would not person fto the 5 men arrested retired connected bail, and that helium was "surprised" they had been released.
"We cognize everything astir them, we would not person released them," helium said, adding that the UK had worked with the US "very closely" connected this.
A ample cordon remains successful spot adjacent the base, portion 85 households who were evacuated connected Sunday person present been told by Gloucestershire Police that they tin instrumentality home.
But constabulary person said a cordon volition stay astir the 3 vehicles.
Gloucestershire Constabulary's Temporary Chief Constable Maggie Blyth said the past 48 hours had thrown "our usually quiescent and peaceful communities nether the spotlight of the planetary media".
Airspace restrictions person besides been enactment successful spot supra the basal - cipher tin alert wrong a 5 mile (8km) portion encircling it without permission. Banned items see balloons, kites, parachutes and paragliders.
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