BBC staff in London say their families are being “targeted and punished” by the Iranian regime as it intensifies a campaign of intimidation against journalists and media outlets.
There have been more than 20 “threat-to-life” incidents against people in the UK by Iran in recent years, according to the Metropolitan police, while in March last year, an Iranian journalist was stabbed outside his London home and later forced to move abroad, saying he no longer felt safe in the UK.
