{"id":7779,"date":"2025-05-17T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/uk-police-charge-three-iranian-nationals-with-national-security-offenses-in-counter-terror-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:27:32","slug":"uk-police-charge-three-iranian-nationals-with-national-security-offenses-in-counter-terror-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/uk-police-charge-three-iranian-nationals-with-national-security-offenses-in-counter-terror-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police charge three Iranian nationals with national security offenses in counter-terror probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxosb6001x27ql8yvh7w23@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Police in the UK have charged three Iranian nationals with national security offenses following a counter-terror investigation.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxq4b30008356mtc74y8ci@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The three men, arrested on Saturday, 3 May, have been charged with \u201cengaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service,\u201d namely Iran, between 14 August 2024 and 16 February 2025, London\u2019s Metropolitan Police said in a statement Saturday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxqa61000a356m5ri8607w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The men, aged between 39 and 55, have been named by police as Mostafa Sepahvand, Farhad Javadi Manesh, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxqejc000c356mm2idttru@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            They have been charged with engaging in surveillance and reconnaissance, with one man charged with the intention of committing \u201cserious violence against a person in the United Kingdom,\u201d the statement outlined.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxrp4f000e356m51ly27ca@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The UK\u2019s Crown Prosecution Service charged the men on Friday, and they are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Saturday. The investigation is being led by the British counter terrorism police.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxru3k000g356mo4zmyacv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Commander Dominic Murphy, from the Met\u2019s Counter Terrorism Command, said: \u201cThese are extremely serious charges under the National Security Act, which have come about following what has been a very complex and fast-moving investigation.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmarxrzqe000i356mk8l4u68y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A fourth man, aged 31, who was arrested on Friday, May 9, has been released without charge.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the UK have charged three Iranian nationals with national security offenses following a counter-terror investigation. The three men, arrested on Saturday, 3 May, have been charged with \u201cengaging in conduct likely to assist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}