British authorities investigate two plots involving mostly Iranian citizens in the UK that appear at this stage of the investigation It is likely to be sponsored on the state, according to the high official official of the threat.
Eight people were arrested in London and in other parts of the UK during the weekend, according to local government statements. Seven of them are Iranian citizens, officials said.
Police said that three men were arrested on section 27. The Law on National Security in the UK 2023, which allows the police to arrest people suspected of acting in cooperation with foreign power.
Officials said that two plots have been separated, but the higher official reported a threat, said British law enforcement now tries to determine whether the same entity directs both plots.
The CIA and the U.S. Office of the National Intelligence Service did not answer the comment requirements.
Some information about one of the two plots occurred to a light local time on Sunday.
In the first announcement of the arrest, the Metropolitan police said that they took five men into custody, four of whom are origin, regarding what they called “alleged terrorist land in the UK”
The range of men, who are 29 to 46, were arrested in various areas around the UK – including Swindon, London, Stockport, Rochdale and Manchester – under the Law on Terrorism “,” Police said. The age and nationality of the fifth man still decides.
Everyone remains in police custody. The motive was not immediately clear.
Police said that in the course of the “rapid start” in the first potential attack. The anti-terrorist police allegedly targeted a particular site, but refused to say where.
The details of the other alleged attack plan were not detected.
The home secretary of the Yvette Cooper called two “main operations” attacks and said reflect “some of the biggest threats and anti-anti-airism operations we’ve seen in recent years” According to the Sky News statement. She also called the current investigation “immensely important.”
Iranian citizens in the past targeted Iranians based in the UK. In one case, an independent television network named Iran International – which broadcasts in the era, moved from London to the United States, after its journalists received the threats of the state lower leg from Iran, The BBC reported 2023. years.
According to an ISTV news investigation of that landThe Islamic Revolutionary Guardian Corps planned to kill two online journalists using a smuggled smuggler, which paid $ 200,000 to do the attack. The plan is ultimately full when smugglers became a “double agent” for unnamed Western intelligence agencies, according to the investigation.
In March 2024. Another Iran International journalist was targeted and stabbed in front of his London home, Associated Press reported at the time. Two Romanian men Later the accused in an attack.
Great Britain answered 20 plots supported by Iran from 2022. year, which represents “potentially deadly threats to British citizens and inhabitants in the UK,” said the Minister of the Native Day of Jarvis in the United Kingdom Update last monthquoting mi5 officials.
Jarvis said Iran targets dissident, media organizations and journalists who report on violent oppression of the Iranian regime.
He added that Iran could plan and attack on Jewish or Israeli goals, stating the “long-term pattern of the aims of Jewish and Israeli people in international intelligence services.
“It is clear that these plots are aware of the Iranian regime strategy to stifle criticism through intimidation and fear,” Jarvis said.
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