{"id":1089905,"date":"2026-07-15T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1089905\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T03:08:15","slug":"london-summons-senior-iranian-diplomat-to-uk-amid-alleged-europe-proxy-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1089905\/","title":{"rendered":"London summons senior Iranian diplomat to UK amid alleged Europe proxy attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain<\/a> on Tuesday summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in London over what the UK government said was Iran’s role in directing proxy groups to carry out attacks across Europe in recent months.<\/p>\n

Charge d’Affaires Ali Nasimfar was summoned to the Foreign Office over the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force allegedly directing a group to carry out attacks across Europe between March and May, the British Foreign Office said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It identified the proxy group as the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right. Calling the activity “completely unacceptable,” the foreign ministry said, “Despite repeated warnings, Iran<\/a>\u2019s intelligence services have not ceased in their hostile activity. Instead, Iran has sought to intensify its malign behavior.”<\/p>\n

The Iranian embassy in London<\/a> could not immediately be reached for comment outside regular business hours. Iran, which is at war with the United States and Israel, has previously denied using proxies.<\/p>\n

Britain on Monday designated the IRGC<\/a> and a linked group as a security threat under new powers aimed at preventing foreign states from using proxies for activities such as surveillance and sabotage.<\/p>\n

Tehran on Tuesday condemned the decision, saying the IRGC was an official part of Iran’s armed forces and accusing Britain of violating international law by targeting a state institution.<\/p>\n

The Quds Force is the IRGC’s overseas arm. The United States has designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain on Tuesday summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in London over what the UK government said was Iran’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1089906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,37209,4884,774,257,14532,16,15],"class_list":["post-1089905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-london","tag-tehran","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116921794875667489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}