{"id":610700,"date":"2026-05-29T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:25:08","slug":"greek-national-is-charged-with-assisting-iran-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/610700\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek national is charged with assisting &#8216;Iran spies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been in custody since his arrest in West Sussex on 16 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know this may cause concern for many people here in the UK, and particularly those working in Persian-language media,&#8221; Commander Helen Flanagan, head of CTP London, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that the force was providing advice and security support to a number of organisations and individuals, including &#8220;the specific individual and organisation linked to this investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said there was not believed to be a wider threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April, three people were charged over an attempted arson attack on the offices of Iran International in north-west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An Islamist group with possible links to Iran &#8211; Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya &#8211; claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim has not been substantiated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement last month, Iran International said it had been subject to a &#8220;campaign of transnational intimidation aimed at silencing independent journalism&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has been in custody since his arrest in West Sussex on 16 May. &#8220;We know this may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-610700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610700","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=610700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}