{"id":2211833,"date":"2024-04-02T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-police-give-update-on-assassination-attempt-on-exiled-iranian-journalist\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:21:21","slug":"british-police-give-update-on-assassination-attempt-on-exiled-iranian-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-police-give-update-on-assassination-attempt-on-exiled-iranian-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"British authorities provide latest information on the attack targeting an Iranian journalist living in exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritish-police-give-update-on-assassination-attempt-on-exiled-iranian-journalist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Metropolitan Police \u2063in\u200c the U.K. stated that suspects in the assassination attempt on Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati left the country post-attack. The investigation, led by the Met\u2019s Counter \u200bTerrorism Command, revealed the suspects fled to Heathrow Airport after the incident in Wimbledon.\u2064 Forensic experts are \u2063examining the abandoned vehicle used\u2064 in the escape, with no disclosed destination of the suspects\u2019 flight.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K.<\/a> said on Tuesday that the suspects behind the assassination attempt of an exiled Iranian journalist fled the country shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Pouria Zeraati, the host Iran International\u2019s \u201cLast Word,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exiled-iranian-journalist-stabbed-outside-home-case-being-investigated-as-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbed<\/a> by a group as he walked out of his home last week. He was hospitalized for a couple of days before being released.<\/p>\n<p>The Met\u2019s Counter Terrorism Command was leading the investigation into the attack given the specific threats that other journalists at the Persian-language news organization have received that have originated from Iranian intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives investigating a stabbing in Wimbledon, south London, believe three suspects were involved and have since recovered a vehicle linked to the attack,\u201d the statement said. \u201cDetectives have established the victim was approached by two men in a residential street and attacked. The suspects fled the scene in a vehicle driven by a third male.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators located the vehicle that was used to help the attackers escape and it is now being examined by forensic experts, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation team has established that after abandoning the vehicle, the suspects travelled directly to Heathrow Airport and left the UK within a few hours of the attack,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not mention the destination to which the suspects flew.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have established that after abandoning the vehicle, the suspects travelled to Heathrow Airport and have left the UK,\u201d said Commander Dominic Murphy, Head of the Met\u2019s Counter Terrorism Command. \u201cWe are now working with international partners to establish further details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy said that police had still not made an official determination of why they believe that the victim was attacked and they are leaving all possibilities on the table.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING <\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s Metropolitan Police have announced that the men who stabbed Iran International journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pouriazeraati?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pouriazeraati<\/a> abandoned their vehicle  shortly after the attack and quickly traveled to Heathrow and left the UK within a few hours of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srEN5Rvk0f\">pic.twitter.com\/srEN5Rvk0f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@yashar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yashar\/status\/1775246516418220063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The attack comes after Iran has repeatedly threatened journalists at the television station, including offering a criminal $200,000 to assassinate Iran International journalists Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian spies planned to target Iran International\u2019s studios in London with a car bomb, the report said. However, they ditched their plan after leaders in the IRGC decided that a knife attack at the targets\u2019 homes would be more effective because the studios had \u201cmany security guards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Jukes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing in Britain, said in a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview last year that Iran uses proxies to carry out assassination attempts because they are typically \u201cnot being tracked by intelligence or security agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the U.K. had foiled 15 Iranian kidnapping and assassination attempts in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been involved in national security policing for over 20 years,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen in the last 18 months is a real acceleration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Police in the U.K. revealed that the individuals responsible for attempting to assassinate Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati fled the country post-attack. Zeraati, the host of Iran International\u2019s \u201cLast Word,\u201d was stabbed outside his home last week and subsequently hospitalized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2211834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/police-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/police-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}