{"id":7005,"date":"2026-03-06T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7005\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:06:19","slug":"uk-cops-arrest-4-in-iran-spying-probe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/7005\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cops arrest 4 in Iran spying probe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men include one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals. They were arrested in the early hours of Friday morning at addresses in Barnet and Watford \u201cas part of a pre-planned operation,\u201d the Met said.<\/p>\n<p>The Met\u2019s head of counter-terrorism policing in London, Helen Flanagan, said the arrests were \u201cpart of a long-running investigation and part of our ongoing work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the public may be concerned, in particular the Jewish community, and as always, I would ask them to remain vigilant and if they see or hear anything that concerns them, then to contact us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests come amid heightened vigilance in the U.K. over the possibility of Iranian reprisals after the U.S. and Israel bombed Iran, setting off a broader conflict across the Middle East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The men include one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals. They were arrested in the early hours of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,1930,1281,2244,34,49,4396,443,2042,691],"class_list":{"0":"post-7005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-counter-terrorism","10":"tag-intelligence","11":"tag-intelligence-services","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-policing","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-services","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116183563555925775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}