When a journalist from the Iran International news channel was stabbed outside his London home, it was just the latest incident in an intensifying campaign of intimidation against the broadcaster orchestrated by the Iranian state.
The attack in March 2024 followed a pattern of threats, surveillance, cyber activity and extortion targeting Iran International staff and their families over several years.
“The strategy is straightforward, it is to take us off air,” said the channel’s spokesman, Adam Baillie. “And we’re not going off air.”
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The channel was the target of some of the 20 “potentially lethal Iran-backed plots” that MI5 director general Ken McCallum says were foiled in the past year.
