Iranian Dissidents in UK Fear Danger After Alleged Embassy Terror Plot

Iranian dissidents in Britain have warned that Tehran is growing "more aggressive and dangerous" overseas as it emerged that the Israeli embassy in London was the target of an alleged terror plot.

- Josh Halliday

Four Iranian men are being questioned by police on suspicion of planning to target what police have described publicly only as a "specific premises".

However, sources said Israel's embassy in Kensington, west London, was the building in question. A spokesperson for the embassy declined to comment when contacted yesterday morning.

The arrests on Saturday followed a police and MI5 operation into what Dan Jarvis, the security minister, described in the Commons as the "largest counter-state threats and counter-terrorism actions we have seen in recent times".

Three other Iranian men are also being questioned on suspicion of involvement in "foreign power threat activity", in this case understood to be on behalf of Iran.

Iran's foreign affairs minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, said his government denied any suggestion of being involved in targeting the Israeli embassy.