Two Iranian men have been charged with plotting a terror attack on the Jewish community in Manchester, British police said Friday.<\/p>\n
The arrests come nearly a year after a deadly knife and gun attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue<\/a> in northern Manchester, where worshipers had gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Two people died in that Oct. 2, 2025, attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n U.K. Metropolitan Police said in a news release<\/a> that 36-year-old Salam Ahmadyan of Liverpool and 34-year-old Rahman Salehi of Salford, both Iranian nationals, were arrested in Manchester on Sept. 20. <\/p>\n “It is alleged that the two men were in contact with an overseas third-party who may be in Iran in relation to the plot,” the Met wrote.<\/p>\n Details of the alleged plot have not been released, but police have confirmed its “disruption.”<\/p>\n “We do not believe there to be any ongoing threat to the public in relation to this matter,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans said in a statement. <\/p>\n “This news will be deeply distressing for our Jewish communities, coming so soon after Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,” British Home Minister Shabana Mahmood said in a statement. “I know this will be especially true in Manchester, as we mark one year since the terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue.”<\/p>\n Mahmood also added in her statement that “both suspects” had “arrived by small boat several years ago,” which she said was a “reminder of the importance of our relentless work to tackle illegal migration into this country.”<\/p>\n The past year has seen a spate of attacks in the British capital targeting Jewish or Israel-linked locations.<\/p>\n The two men are due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday.<\/p>\n This also comes after five British nationals, all men in their mid-20s, were arrested on Sept. 27<\/a> in an English village near the British air force base RAF Fairford on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. The base has been used by American bombers to launch attacks on Iran during the war in the Middle East. The men were later released on bail.<\/p>\n On Thursday, British authorities arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national<\/a> on suspicion of plotting a terror attack at the RAF Fairford air base. It’s unclear if that suspect was connected in any way to the previous incident.<\/p>\n