{"id":460500,"date":"2026-03-06T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:56:07","slug":"four-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assisting-irans-intelligence-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460500\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran&#8217;s intelligence service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added : &#8220;We 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to ITV&#8217;s Good Morning Britain shortly after news broke of the arrests, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said: &#8220;Iran is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism globally and sadly, that is in effect in our own society as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our intelligence services and counter-terrorism police have thwarted lots of action over the last few years,&#8221; he added. He also praised the work of the security services and police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Community Security Trust, a charity which seeks to protect Britain&#8217;s Jewish community and monitors reports of antisemitism, thanked police in a statement and added: &#8220;Security is strong across the Jewish community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 40-year-old and a 55-year-old were arrested at addresses in Barnet, a 52-year-old in Watford and a 22-year-old in Harrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Searches remain ongoing in Watford, Barnet, and an address in Wembley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four men were detained under the National Security Act, which was introduced in 2023 to modernise counter spying laws, combating foreign interference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added : &#8220;We understand the public may be concerned, in particular the Jewish community, and as always,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-460500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}