British counterterrorism police are investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian government. Three suspects have fled the country within hours of the attack. The journalist, Pouria Zeraati, was stabbed in the leg outside his home in London. Police are working with international partners to establish further details.
British counterterrorism police investigating the stabbing of a journalist who works for a TV channel critical of the Iranian government said that three suspects had fled the country within hours of the attack. Pouria Zeraati , a presenter at London -based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg Friday afternoon outside his home in London . Police said Zeraati, who has been released from a hospital, was attacked by two men who fled in a car driven by a third man.
“We have established that after abandoning the vehicle, the suspects traveled to Heathrow Airport and have left the U.K.,’’ Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command, said in a statement late Tuesday. “We are now working with international partners to establish further details.’’ Police said that while the motivation for the attack is still unclear, Zeraati’s occupation, together with recent threats to U.K.-based Iranian journalists, triggered a counterterrorism investigatio
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