Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is said to be plotting to kill two British-Iranian journalists working within the UK, Volant Media confirmed on Monday.
The London-based broadcaster of Iran International TV channel, where the two journalists are currently working, said in a statement that the duo have received “death threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” an elite branch of the Iranian Army.
The Farsi-language channel called the incident “state-sponsored threats to journalists in the U.K.,” in which “credible threats” were made to the two journalists by Iran’s security forces, stating that it was an attempt to suppress independent media.
Volant Media confirmed the two journalists received a formal warning from the London’s Metropolitan Police of credible threats to their lives and those of their families.
According to VOA, other journalists had also been notified of similar threats.
The Met said in a response…
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