PM Netanyahu says Israel warned UK of suspected Iran attack plot on RAF airbase

After three days of investigations, including using a bomb disposal team, police said on Tuesday they had found no explosives in the vehicles, but they had retrieved a "quantity of petrol."

Israel had warned Britain that Iran was planning an attack on an airbase, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as he denounced the UK government for still pressuring his administration over treatment of the Palestinians.

Speaking to Fox News late on Wednesday, Netanyahu said Israel tipped off Britain about a plot shortly before Burnham's government announced sanctions on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on 8 September.

"You want to hear how absurd things are there and how far the anti-Israel propaganda has gone?" Netanyahu told the US network's conservative host Sean Hannity.

"We gave the Brits the intel that there was going to be an attack and it's an Iranian-sponsored attack. And pretty much the next day, they slapped sanctions on us," he said.

Netanyahu has spent decades warning of threats from Iran's cleric-run state, sometimes meeting scepticism elsewhere.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Wednesday there were "strong indications" that Iran was involved in suspicious activity near the RAF Fairford airbase, which is used by US forces in their war on Iran.

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