Hostile Surveillance: The Taxi Driver, the RAF Base, and the IRGC

A dual British-Azerbaijani national from London has been arrested in Cyprus and faces extradition to the United Kingdom on suspicion of conducting hostile surveillance of the strategic RAF Akrotiri air base and sharing the information with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Rashad Sultanov, 44, is at the center of the first investigation under the UK’s National Security Act involving an overseas territory. The case highlights growing concerns about Iranian intelligence activity targeting British military facilities in the eastern Mediterranean.