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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday, Vikram Dodd and Dan Sabbagh

Eight men including seven Iranians arrested in two England anti-terrorism operations

A police forensics unit at work
East Street in Rochdale, where armed police arrested an Iranian man on Saturday. Photograph: Josh Halliday/The Guardian

Police have thwarted an alleged imminent terror plot in England with a number of Iranian nationals arrested amid concern about the growing level of Tehran-backed hostile activity in the UK.

Five suspects, including four Iranians, were arrested as part of a suspected plan to target “specific premises”, the Metropolitan police said. Of those arrested, the nationality of the fifth was still being established.

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