(Times of Israel) Israeli security officials gave intelligence to the UK that Iran intended to harm journalists at a London-based opposition news station, leading them to shift their broadcasts to Washington, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Monday. Iran International immediately instructed its workers to avoid their office, then it closed down, after London's Metropolitan Police warned "about the existence of serious and immediate threats to the safety of Iranian journalists" working there. "I am appalled by the Iranian regime's continuing threats to the lives of UK-based journalists," British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Monday.
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