(National-UAE) Britain summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat on Monday to make clear that threats to journalists on UK soil “will never go unchallenged” after a Persian-language TV channel was forced to close its London newsroom.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he was “appalled by the Iranian regime’s continuing threats to the lives of UK-based journalists” following Iran International’s decision to temporarily close its UK operation.
Security was tight at Chiswick Business Park when the National visited on Monday, two days after the broadcaster announced major changes.
A source at the channel told the National: “We’re on air, uninterrupted, broadcasting from our DC studios.”
