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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Michael Howie and Nicholas Cecil

MI5 and police will act to protect London, says Home Secretary after four 'Iranian spy' arrests

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said police and security services ‘won’t hesitate to take action to counter any threat” after the arrest of four men on suspicion of spying on the Jewish community in London for Iran.

The Metropolitan Police said the suspects, one Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals, were taken into custody on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.

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