Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations.
Five were arrested at various locations around England on Saturday as part of a “pre-planned” investigation into a plot to “target a specific premises”, the Metropolitan Police said.
Four of those – two aged 29, one aged 40 and another aged 46 – are Iranian nationals. Police said the nationality and age of the fifth was still being established.
Three other men, all Iranian, were arrested in London on Saturday under national security legislation as part of a separate investigation led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC). Police said the two operations were not connected.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper thanked police and security services “for the action they have taken to keep our country safe”.
The Met Police’s CTC has responsibility for leading counter terrorism-related investigations and as well as investigations into espionage and state threats.
In the operation in which five men were arrested, four were detained under the Terrorism Act. The fifth man was arrested under the Police and Criminal Evidence (Pace) Act.
All five were arrested on suspicion of preparation of an act of terrorism.
The men were arrested in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale and Manchester, and remain in police custody.
Police said the investigation related to a suspected plot to target a “specific premises”.
Credit: bbc.com
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