U.Okay. summons Iran envoy over alleged threats to journalistsYesterday

Britain’s overseas minister summoned Iran’s high diplomat in London on Friday to protest alleged threats towards journalists in Britain.

The Overseas Workplace mentioned that lately London’s Metropolitan Police have “contacted a variety of U.Okay.-based journalists, having obtained credible details about a menace to their lives.”

It didn’t establish the journalists, however Britain-based, Farsi-language satellite tv for pc information channel Iran Worldwide mentioned earlier this week that police had instructed two of its journalists about “an imminent, credible and vital threat to their lives and people of their households.” It mentioned the threats got here from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Overseas Secretary James Cleverly mentioned he had summoned Iran’s cost d’affaires, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, “to clarify that we don’t tolerate threats to life and intimidation of any variety towards journalists, or any particular person, residing within the U.Okay.”

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