英国首相安迪·伯纳姆表示，政府认为伊朗在费尔福德皇家空军基地事件中发挥了作用；该事件导致五名男子被捕后获准保释。
The government believes that Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident which resulted in five men being arrested and then bailed, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said.
“有强烈迹象表明，伊朗参与了上周末在费尔福德皇家空军基地发生的事件，”他告诉BBC，但并未提供更多细节。
"There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford," he told the BBC. He did not provide further details.
伊朗方面对此作出了回应，外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉奇称这位英国首相“完全搞错了方向”。他在社交媒体上写道：“我可以证实，伊朗认为那些为外国势力工作的恐怖分子被释放，这一事实本身就说明了很多问题。”
Iran has responded, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying the UK leader was "barking up the wrong tree". "I can confirm Iran's belief that releasing supposed terrorists working for foreign states really says it all," he wrote on social media.
当被问及为何这些嫌疑人会被保释时（这一决定曾受到唐纳德·特朗普总统的公开质疑），伯纳姆坚称这些嫌疑人受到了“最严格的保释条件”的约束。
Asked why the suspects had been released on bail - a decision which has been openly questioned by President Donald Trump - Burnham insisted the men were subject to the "strictest possible bail conditions".
特朗普周一在白宫表示：“我本会要求不要给他们保释权；他们居然还是被放走了，这让我很惊讶。”但伯纳姆回应说：“需要大家明白，这里的‘被释放’并不意味着他们可以自由行动，实际上他们仍受到极其严格的保释限制。”
Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said: "I will tell you, I would have said, 'don't let them have bail'. I'm surprised that they released them. I wouldn't have done that." But Burnham said: "I think people need to understand that when it says released - that isn't as people might think. It's obviously with the strictest possible bail conditions.
此前，美国国务卿马可·卢比奥也指出费尔福德事件“显然涉及外国势力的参与”。他在接受福克斯新闻采访时说：“这表明我们正在应对一些全球性的威胁——比如伊朗，他们曾公开威胁要攻击美国的利益。”
"The authorities have this under the strongest grip and closest control, and I can assure you of that." Burnham's comments come after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that the incident at RAF Fairford "clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor" In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Rubio said "I think it ties us to the reality here, and that is we are dealing with elements in the world, and in the case of Iran, for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally".
伯纳姆还表示，英国政府整个星期都在与美国相关部门沟通，解释事件的经过及处理方式，并对英国安全部门的处理方式充满信心。
Burnham said that the government had been "talking to our counterparts in the United States all week to explain what is happening here, how things are being done", and that he had "complete confidence in the way British security services are handling this".
“我们将在适当时候进一步说明，但现在可以确认，我们认为伊朗曾参与其中，”他对英国广播公司说。
"We will say more in due course but we can confirm our belief that we believe Iran to have played a part," he told the BBC.
“当然，警方的调查仍在继续，而且复杂、性质严重；当然，我们也在与美方同事密切合作，”伯纳姆补充道。据披露，五名男子中有一人是在该团伙被捕前亲自拨打了999。
"Of course it remains an ongoing, complex and serious police investigation, and of course we are working closely with our colleagues in the United States of America," Burnham added. Burnham's comments came after it emerged that one of the five men had dialled 999 himself before the group were arrested.
周日凌晨早些时候，警方获悉，正位于空军基地以东的韦尔福德村出现了“三辆可疑车辆”，随后将五名男子逮捕。
The five men were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after police were alerted to "three suspicious vehicles" in Whelford, a village which lies directly east of the base.
他们均为英国国籍，年龄在23岁至25岁之间。其中四人居住在威斯敏斯特区，一人居住在卡姆登区。目前，对他们住所的搜查已经完成。
They are all UK nationals aged between 23 and 25. Four of them live in Westminster and one in Camden, and searches of their homes are now complete.
五名男子已获准保释。警方称，这是一个“调查决定”，是“基于经验和战略”作出的。
The men were released on bail in what police described as an "investigative decision" that was "grounded in experience and strategy".
警方表示，在搜查几辆厢式车时发现了一批汽油，但没有发现爆炸装置。数十年来，该皇家空军基地一直被美国空军用作前沿作战基地。
Police said a quantity of petrol but no explosive devices were found during searches of the vans. The RAF base has been used as a forward operating location by the US Air Force for decades.
近几个月来，在英国批准美国提出的请求，允许其使用该基地实施所谓针对伊朗的防御性打击后，美国轰炸机从该基地起飞，飞往中东。
In recent months, US bombers have taken off from the base for the Middle East, after the UK approved a US request to use it for what it called defensive strikes on Iran.
今年7月，伊朗表示，“任何被用于侵略伊朗领土的基地，都构成我军的合法目标”。
In July, Iran said "any base used for aggression against Iranian territory constitutes a legitimate target for our forces".
在阿拉格齐发表上述言论之前，伊朗驻伦敦大使馆曾驳斥将伊朗与最新事件联系起来的“毫无根据且恶毒的猜测”。
Before Araghchi's comments the Iranian embassy in London had said it rejected "unfounded and malicious speculations" linking Iran to the latest incident.