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Airline passengers are facing cancellations or disruption to flights to Israel and surrounding countries after Iran's airstrikes at the weekend.more

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron today assessed that Iran's attack on Israel was serious but failed and urged the Israeli authorities not to escalate the conflict.more

Royal Marines are poised to lead a 'Dunkirk-style' evacuation of thousands of UK nationals from the Middle East after Iran launched a huge drone and missile attack against Israel last night. Commandos have already conducted reconnaissance along the Lebanese coastline ahead of a potential maritime rescue mission.more

Iran fired dozens of drones and, as it claims, ballistic missiles towards Israel overnight. The direct attack is unprecedented and could lead to a serious escalation of tensions after half a year of war in the Gaza Strip. The US assured its support for Israel.more

The US and UK yesterday warned Iran not to try to attack Israel. Authorities in Tehran have threatened Israel with retaliation for the 1 April attack on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.more

The three suspects in the stabbing death of a journalist from the London-based Iran International TV station, which is critical of the authorities in Tehran, left the UK within hours of the attack, London's Metropolitan Police said today.more

A prominent exiled Iranian journalist was stabbed outside his home in London on Friday, prompting British police to launch a counterterrorism investigation. Pouria Zeraati, a television anchor at the UK-based channel Iran International, was reportedly attacked by a group of men outside his home in south-western Wimbledon. The assailants then fled in a car.more

Iranian-born scientist Shiva Kaviani has been living at Istanbul airport for a month now, unable to return to her country for political reasons and denied a visa by Canada, where she was heading, on formal grounds. It is a story like out of the Steven Spielberg film "Terminal", the media notes.more

Iran is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimages in the Middle East to spy on Jews and Iranian dissidents in Britain when they return, the Daily Mail reported.more

Iran used accounts held at the banks in the UK to covertly move money around the world as part of a sanctions-evasion scheme backed by Iran's intelligence services. Lloyds and Santander UK provided accounts to British front companies secretly owned by a sanctioned Iranian petrochemicals company based in London, according to documents seen by the FT.more

Yesterday, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs imposed sanctions on seven people and entities associated with Iran, including those involved in the attempted murder in Great Britain of two journalists from the Iran International TV channel, which opposes the regime.more

Grant Shapps suggested yesterday that a retaliatory attack against Yemen's Houthi rebels for their shelling of merchant ships and warships was imminent, British media report.more

Iran's Education Minister Rezamorad Sahraei has announced plans to introduce separate textbooks for male and female students, a change that is intended to fit in with the 'culture of modesty' promoted by the authorities - reported Radio Free Europe yesterday.more

84 percent of respondents are against regulations forcing women to cover their hair and bodies, reported the legal but pro-reform Iranian newspaper Shargh.more

Russia's partnership with Iran has strengthened in recent years, which was almost certainly accelerated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense said yesterday.more

The group, led by former world boxing champion Mahyar Monshipour and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, in a letter to the IOC demands the exclusion of Iran from the Paris Olympics for discrimination against women in sports.more

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly accused Iran on Friday of supplying munitions to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. This is the first accusation of its kind by the British government.more

British broadcaster Sky News today revealed a document dated 14 September 2022, which is most likely, a contract for Iran to supply Russia with various artillery and tank missile samples to the tune of $1.013 million.more

The UK government today imposed sanctions on four more Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders who are responsible for human rights violations in Iran.more

Cameras in Iran used to record and detect women who do not cover their heads under Iranian law "very likely" come from China, where advanced technology is used to identify faces, Craig Singleton of the US Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) told Euronews.more

In the Gulf of Oman, the British Navy has seized illegally transported anti-tank missiles and ballistic missile components; the weapons were most likely being transported to Yemen, the British Defense Ministry said today.more

The Foreign Office yesterday summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Iranian embassy in London following threats against journalists living in the UK, and sanctioned a further eight Iranian officials.more

Iran is modifying the attack drones it supplies to Russia so that the explosive warheads can do maximum damage to infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, CNN reported yesterday.more

State-linked Russian and Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting British politicians, journalists and academics in their spear-phishing attacks, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned yesterday.more

The United States and the United Kingdom, together with European Union countries, introduced additional sanctions against Iran yesterday over human rights violations during anti-government protests there, the US State Department website reported.more