{"id":9740,"date":"2025-06-06T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:04:03","slug":"three-iranians-charged-in-uk-over-alleged-plot-targeting-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9740","title":{"rendered":"Three Iranians charged in UK over alleged plot targeting journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
Three Iranian men appeared in court in London on Friday accused of assisting Iran’s foreign intelligence service and plotting violence against journalists working for a British-based broadcaster critical of Tehran.<\/p>\n

The three men – Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55, – have been charged with offences under Britain’s National Security Act, brought in to give the authorities new powers to target threats from foreign states.<\/p>\n

They are accused of “engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service” between August 2024 and February this year, and police have said that it related to Iran.<\/p>\n

Sepahvand is also charged with carrying out surveillance in preparation to commit serious violence against a person, while Manesh and Noori were charged with surveillance with the intention that serious violent acts would be committed by others.<\/p>\n

The men appeared by videolink on Friday for a brief hearing at London’s Old Bailey court during which their lawyers said all intended to plead not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors told a hearing last month that the allegations involved the targeting of journalists based in Britain connected with Iran International, a broadcaster critical of the Iranian government.<\/p>\n

They were remanded in custody until a formal plea hearing on September 26 and they are due to go on trial in October next year.<\/p>\n

The suspects were arrested last month on the same day counter-terrorism police detained five other men, including four Iranians, as part of a separate operation. Those men were later released without charge.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Iranian men appeared in court in London on Friday accused of assisting Iran’s foreign intelligence service and plotting violence against journalists working for a British-based broadcaster critical of Tehran. The three men – Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55, – have been charged with offences under Britain’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}