An Iranian man and a Romanian woman have now been charged after allegedly unsuccessfully attempting to enter a nuclear missile base in Scotland this week, Police Scotland announced Saturday.
The agency said around 5 p.m. on Thursday, “we were made aware of two people attempting to enter HM Naval Base Clyde.”
“A 34-year-old Iranian man and a 31-year-old Romanian woman have been arrested and charged in connection with the incident. They are due to appear at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Monday, March 23,” Police Scotland said. “Enquiries are ongoing.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Police Scotland for further comment.
Citing the Times, the Telegraph newspaper reported that the suspects were turned away from the base because they lacked the correct passes and were later arrested nearby for allegedly “acting suspiciously in the vicinity.”
HM Naval Base Clyde — commonly known as Faslane — is considered the primary base for the United Kingdom’s missile fleet.
One of the Vanguard Class Ship nuclear submarines in the dock at HM Naval Base Clyde, the home of the UK Submarine Service at Faslane in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, July 5, 2019.AP
The Royal Navy says the base is home “to the core of the Submarine Service, including the nation’s nuclear deterrent, and the new generation of hunter-killer submarines.”
The U.K. Parliament says the Royal Navy currently operates a fleet of nine submarines, with the entire fleet based at HM Naval Base Clyde.
A Vanguard-class submarine undergoes maintenance at HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, north-west of Glasgow, Scotland on April 28, 2023.AFP via Getty Images
“Five of those are conventionally-armed nuclear-powered attack submarines of the Astute class. A further four are ballistic missiles submarines (SSBN) of the Vanguard class that comprise the UK’s submarine-based nuclear deterrent,” it added.
A Royal Navy spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Friday, “Police Scotland have arrested two people who unsuccessfully attempted to enter HM Naval Base Clyde on Thursday 19 March. As the matter is subject to an ongoing investigation, we will not comment further.”
Two more nations signed on to a letter Saturday strongly condemningIran’s partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz– isolating the Islamic Republic diplomatically as it seeks to apply maximum economic pressure by bottling up oil shipments.
Earlier signatories were the UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan, whose Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters Thursday that she informed President Trump what her country “can do and cannot do,” citing war limits outlined in Japan’s constitution.
A group of countries is offering to contribute to “appropriate efforts” to get ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital corridor.REUTERS
“They are really stepping up to the plate,” Trump said at the White House, despite his on and off fury that allies weren’t sharing more of the burden.
Later Friday, he posted that the Strait “will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not!”
Defense experts said naval escorts to protect shipping would require the use of destroyers. FollowingIran’s initial threats to US, Israeli and allied ships, vessels flagged to China, India, Turkey and Pakistan have continued to trickle through the crucial corridor.
Iran was also preparing to allow Japanese ships to pass through the strait, Al Jazeera reported.
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, issued a written statement for Norwuz, but hasn’t been seen publicly since succeeding his father, who was killed in an Israeli strike Feb. 28.via REUTERS
“We have not closed the strait. In our opinion, the strait is open. It is closed only to ships belonging to our enemies, countries that attack us. For other countries, ships can pass through the strait,” Araghchi told Japan’s Kyodo News late Friday.
The 22 countries, meanwhile, blasted Tehran for recent attacks on “unarmed” vessels in a joint statement.
“We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces,” the countries said in the statement.
Iran has threatened US, Israeli and allied vessels, but some ships flagged to China and India are getting through.via REUTERS
“We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning,” it continued, without specifying the nature of that support.
Putting an end to oil exports from the Gulf region amounts to “removing close to 20 percent of global oil supplies from the market, about 80 percent of which is shipped to Asia,” according to a paper released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Friday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy.
The socialist lawmaker hired Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a chain of mental health clinics focusing on “novel” therapies popular with Hollywood and Wall Street.
AOC spent nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy.Jack Forbes / NY Post Design
Her campaign paid Boyle $11,550 in March 2025, another $2,800 in May, and $4,375 in October for a total of $18,725, Federal Election Commission records show.
The expenses were marked as “leadership training and consulting.”
It’s unclear what the sessions consisted of or who participated. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Boyle, a Harvard-trained doctor, calls himself an “interventional psychiatrist” and specializes in unorthodox methods for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and anxiety.
“I just saw the incredible power of what these treatments could do,” Boyle said during a podcast appearance last year about getting into the mind-blowing biz. “It’s a ton of fun helping patients get better.”
Dr. Brian Boyle is chief psychiatric officer at Stella, a mental health clinic specializing in alternative therapies.Stella Mental Health/ Instagram
Boyle’s clinic also offers other treatments popular with the 1 Percent, like stellate ganglion block, an anesthetic injected into a nerve cluster in the neck to calm the body’s fight-or-flight response. Billionaires like Bob Parsons, who’s battled PTSD since returning from the Vietnam War, have raved about the treatment.
“Celebrities tend to be more inclined to be on the hunt for highly effective solutions across beauty, health, mental health, nutrition and so on,” Boyle said in an interview last year about the treatment.
AOC herself is no stranger to touting the benefits of hallucinogenic drugs for therapy.
The “Squad” rep, who campaigned to end the federal prohibition of marijuana in 2018, has three times proposed legislation to make it easier to study magic mushrooms and other psychedelics.
As a freshman congresswoman in 2019, she introduced an amendment to allow the feds to spend taxpayer money on studying the medical potential of psilocybin, ecstasy and other drugs to treat mental illnesses, calling the early research “promising.”
“It’s well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration and into medical consideration,” she tweeted at the time.
The amendment was overwhelmingly rejected then, even by her Democratic colleagues, and failed again when she tried a second time in 2021. But the “Bronx girl” got it done on her third attempt, when she co-sponsored a similar bill which was signed into law in 2023.
Ketamine was originally used as a horse tranquilizer, but has spiked in popularity for humans in the last few years.luchschenF – stock.adobe.com
The Bronx and Queens lawmaker has previously talked about her own mental health, revealing she was in therapy following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, when she said lawmakers effectively “served in war.”
“Oh yeah, I’m doing therapy,” she said on the public radio show Latino USA in 2021, calling the day when she said she hid in the bathroom, fearing for her life as police banged on the door, “an extraordinarily traumatizing event.”
“I’ve had to take a beat,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez, 36, also talked about taking a “self-care” break after the stress of her first campaign in 2018, when she unseated longtime incumbent Joe Crowley to become the youngest woman elected to Congress.
The Bronx and Queens lawmaker has previously talked about her own mental health.AP
“I went from doing yoga and making wild rice and salmon dinners to eating fast food for dinner and falling asleep in my jeans and makeup,” she wrote in her Instagram story at the time. “I neglected myself.”
Critics don’t see how campaign cash is appropriate for head shrinking.
“While I can understand why AOC would spend $18,000 for a shrink whose specialties include narcissistic personality disorders, using her campaign contributions for what appears to be an expense for personal use violates federal campaign finance laws,” slammed Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center.
“While she describes these expenses as ‘leadership training,’ Dr. Boyle has no expertise in that area, unlike several Democratic campaign consultants,” Kamenar added. “This looks like yet another example of misuse of campaign contributions.”
While AOC and others hailed the potential of drugs like ketamine as a miracle cure for illnesses like PTSD and depression, doctors have warned it’s still a powerful hallucinogenic that carries a risk of inducing psychosis in some people.
“There’s a risk of people receiving infusions for ketamine without an appropriate diagnostic workup and considering other factors which may be responsible for their symptoms,” psychiatrist Dr. Simon Dosovitz recently told The Post. “It is a strongly dissociative drug.”
Boyle did not return The Post’s request for comment.
