by Camilla Turner, Telegraph
Press TV’s reporting on Jewish organisations compared to a ‘target list for terrorists’
An Iranian spy recruitment ring is operating openly in London, ministers have been warned.
Tehran is exploiting Britain’s “permissive environment” as a base for its Western intelligence-gathering and propaganda campaigns, The Telegraph was told.
The regime was accused of using Press TV, the English-language channel of Iran’s state broadcaster, which has a studio in London, as a front to recruit assets.
The channel was said to have effectively created a “target list for terrorists” with its reports on Jewish charities, schools and community organisations.
Last week, two men were arrested after an anti-Semitic firebomb attack in north London, in which four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity were set alight outside a synagogue.
Counter-terrorism police are leading an investigation into the arson, amid fears it may have been orchestrated by Iran.
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