British officials are racing to track down all members of an Iranian cell after a shipment of uranium destined for them was seized by authorities at London’s Heathrow Airport.

The uranium was reportedly shipped in the cargo hold of a commercial passenger jet and was on the way to UK-based Iranian nationals, when security scanners at Heathrow picked up on the deadly shipment, with which terrorists may have been planning to create and detonate a dirty bomb.

The shipment arrived at the airport’s Terminal 4 from Pakistan on an Oman Air jet, with its final destination being an Iran-based firm that works in the UK. Who exactly was supposed to be the recipient of the uranium shipment is unclear, and no arrests have yet been made.

“The race is on to trace everyone involved with this rogue non-manifested package,” a British security official said. “Security bosses are treating this with the seriousness it deserves. Protocol was not followed, and this is now an anti-terror operation. There are real concerns over what the Iranians living here wanted with non-disclosed nuclear material.”

“We can confirm officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command were contacted by Border Force colleagues at Heathrow after a very small amount of contaminated material was identified after routine screening within a package incoming to the UK on December 29. The material has been identified as being contaminated with uranium,” the Met Police said in a statement.

Though the amount of uranium may have been small, it could potentially mean that other small shipments of uranium already made it through the airport and into the hands of terrorists planning a dastardly act.

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