The regime of the Islamic Republic has repeatedly criticised the Iran International network for its extensive coverage of the nationwide uprising by Iranian citizens.
The UK-based Farsi-language network announced in a statement that its employees have been informed of threats against them by the London Metropolitan Police.
The statement referred to increasing threats from the Islamic Republic and added, “The Metropolitan Police has now officially informed our two British-Iranian journalists that these threats pose an imminent, credible, and significant threat to their lives and their families."
Iran International stated, "Our journalists have been harassed on a daily basis on social media, but these threats against the lives of British-Iranian journalists working in the UK are a significant and dangerous escalation of the government's campaign to intimidate Iranian journalists working abroad.”
Iran International statement added, "The death threat to British citizens on British soil comes after several weeks of warnings by the IRGC and the Iranian government about the activities of a free and uncensored Persian-language media operating in London."
This statement emphasised that the UK has been the symbol of freedom of speech and Iran International is “proud to serve the 85 million people of Iran by providing independent and uncensored information”.
Iran International referred to the repressions of the Islamic Republic in its statement and added that the “Islamic Republic of Iran and especially the IRGC cannot be allowed to export its brutal media repression to the United Kingdom”.
