British against British terrorism officers have arrested eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, in relation to two separate investigations, London Metropolitan Police said Sunday.
In one of the cases, four Iranians and another man whose nationality has not yet been determined on Saturday under suspicion of preparation, a terrorist law against a single site.
“The investigation is related to a plot of itspecado to point to a specific place,” police said in a statement issued early Sunday. Police added that the site was not being named “for operational reasons.”
Dominic Murphy, head of the command against terrorism of the Metropolitan Police, said the investigation was “fast” and that the police were “working closely with those on the affected site to keep them updated.”
He added: “The investment is still in its early stages and we are exploring male lines of research to establish any potential motivation, as well as to identify white, it can be an additional risk for the public linked to this matter.”
Police said that two of the Iranian citizens were 29 years old, one was 46 years old and the other 40. They were arrested in London and Swindon, about 80 miles west of the capital, and in Stockport and Rochdale in the Northwest. The other man was arrested in the Manchester area.
In a later statement, the police said that three Iranians, of 39, 44 and 55 years, were arrested in separate places in London on Saturday, but that those judgments were not connected to the other investigation.
“The three men have leg tasks in custody and seek continuous in the three directions,” police said. They added that the men were arrested under the 2023 National Security Law, which was introduced to harden the protections against hostile acts against Great Britain.
Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of the Interior, described the trial as “serious events that demonstrate the continuous requirement of adapting our response to national security threats.”
She added: “The government continues to work with the police and intelligence agencies to support all the action and security evaluations that are needed to keep the country safe.”
There were no more details of the type of suddenly investigated.
In a speech last year, Ken McCallum, the Chief of MI5, the National Security Service of Great Britain, identified Iran as a country of growing concern for the anti -terrorism police. He said that, since January 2022, security services had responded to 20 backed by Iran suddenly that represented potentially lethal threats to British citizens and residents.
Mr. McCallum cited as an example the imprisonment of a man last December for the recognition of what was the headquarters of Iran International, an opposition television channel in Persian language that operates from Great Britain.
Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, Wes Streeting, the Secretary of Health, said the government “will obviously keep the public what we can”, but added: “Given that these are live investigations, it is not that it is not approximate.”
