London – Police officers against British terrorism arrested four Iranian men about an alleged plot to attack an un specified objective, and three others about an indefinite national security threat, London Metropolitan Police said on Sunday. The Government described operations as the “threat and contractorism against the most important state” in years.
The MET, as the London police force is known, said that five men between the ages of 29 and 46 were arrested on Saturday in various parts of England under the terrorism law under suspicion of preparation “a terrorist act.”
Four are Iranian citizens and the nationality of the fifth was still clear. Police said the attack plot was pointing to a single location that was not being named “for operational reasons.” They said that people in the facilities in question received “advice and support.”
All suspects were being interrogated in the police stations and had not accused the leg or Monday morning. Police said they were looking for several properties in London, the Manchester area in the northwest of England and Swindon in western England.
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Forensic officers in a blue monkey were seen in a house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, where the men were detanado. Three of the sentence in the Metropolitan Area of Manchester, one in London and one in Swindon.
Rochdale resident, Kyle Warren, told Great Britain Sky News that “heard a massive explosion” and saw “20 or 30 police officers” drag a man from a house in his neighborhood.
“We have seen a man retired from the back, he was basically dragged by the lateral entrance and thrown into all the bushes and then handcuffed,” he said.
The video filmed by the spectators and obtained by the CBS News BBC News Network showed the armed police withdrawing a man from a house in Rochdale, while another clip showed a man dragged by a street on Swindon with his hands tied and plastic covers. The BBC said military personnel separated in the Rochdale trial.
An ocular witness in Swindon told the BBC that six men enter a coffee and ask for coffee and donuts before following a suspect who had been inside the business, where they “jumped on him.”
Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the command against MET terrorism, said the police were working to establish a reason “, as well as to identify if there may be any additional risk to the public.”
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Separately, three other Iranian men, 39, 44 years old and 55, were arrested in London under suspicion of a national security crime as part of an unrelated investigation, police said.
The Secretary of the Interior, Yvette Cooper, said that “the thesis were two main operations that reflect some of the greatest threat and contorism operations against the State we have seen in recent years.”
The National Intelligence Service of Great Britain, MI5, warned about a growing threat of attackers linked to Tehran. Cooper said that “ongoing research is immensely important” to determine if the trials were connected to the Iranian state.
“This reflects the child’s complexity of challenges for our national security that we continually face,” Cooper said.
The Chief of the MI5, Ken McCallum, said in October that his agents and the police had approached 20 “Potntiaty Lethal” suddenly backed by Iran since 2022, the majority aimed at the Iranians in the United Kingdom who oppose the authorities of the country.
He said at that time that there was a risk “of an increase in Iranian or amplitude state aggression in the United Kingdom” if Conflicts in the Middle East Deepened
In March 2024, Pouria ZaraatiPresenter of a television station in the critical Farsi language of the Iranian government, it was Stabbed in his leg out of his home in London. Two men were later arrested in Romania and accused of the attack.
The official threat level of the United Kingdom is “substantial”, in the middle of a five -point scale, which means that an attack is likely.