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Three Iranian men have been charged with offences under the National Security Act in the UK.

Axar.az reports, citing Sky News, the trio have been charged with engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service between 14 August 2024 and 16 February 2025, following an investigation by counter-terror police.

The Metropolitan Police said the three men are Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55.

The foreign state to which the charges relate is Iran, police said.

All three men will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday, the force added.

Sepahvand, of St John's Wood, London, has also been charged with "surveillance, reconnaissance and open-source research" with the intention of "committing serious violence against a person in the UK", according to a police statement.

Meanwhile, Manesh, of Kensal Rise, London, and Noori, of Ealing, London, have also been charged with "engaging in conduct, namely surveillance and reconnaissance, with the intention that acts, namely serious violence against a person in the UK, would be committed by others".

Commander Dominic Murphy, from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, described the charges as "extremely serious".

Date
2025.05.17 / 14:12
Author
Axar.az
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