Robert Mendick, Martin Evans, Fiona Parker, Danielle Sheridan – The Telegraph May 4, 2025
A suspected Iranian terror attack was hours away from being launched on British soil, The Telegraph understands.
Five men, including four Iranian nationals, were arrested at locations across England on Saturday in what the Home Secretary described as one of the biggest counter-terror operations in recent years.
It is understood that authorities feared the attack on a “specific premises” was imminent.
Counter-terror police arrested a further three Iranian men in London as part of a separate operation, fearing they would leave the UK or destroy critical evidence against them after the other raids.
They were arrested under powers granted by the National Security Act, which allows officers to make arrests if they reasonably suspect individuals of being involved in “foreign power threat activity”.
Speculation mounted on Sunday night that the target may have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community.
On Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said they were working to identify whether there may be any further risk to the public.
Forensic officers search a house in Rochdale following Saturday’s raids Credit: Ryan Jenkinson
In a statement on Sunday night, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said: “These were two major operations that reflect some of the biggest counter-state threats and counter terrorism operations that we have seen in recent years.”
Asked about possible links to the Iranian state, she said: “These are major operations that have taken place and the ongoing investigation is immensely important, and of course it involves Iranian nationals in both investigations and we are supporting the police and the security agencies in the investigations that they are taking and the security assessments that they are doing.”
Dramatic footage showed armed officers at one raid on a property in Rochdale.
Neighbours described men with masks and guns leading a shirtless man outside before telling him to “get on the floor”.
On Sunday night, there were renewed calls for Labour to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Despite having pledged in opposition to ban the organisation, Labour have yet to do so.
The Telegraph understands that Foreign Office officials have previously opposed the move because it would prevent the UK from maintaining its backchannel to Iran, which is also used by the United States.
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said: “The IRGC should have been proscribed years ago, without a shadow of a doubt. Friends of mine who live in the Middle East are astonished we haven’t done it.”
On Sunday, Luke Akehurst, the Labour MP for North Durham, said: “This adds to the urgency for the IRGC to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. Labour called for the proscription of the IRGC when we were in opposition. I urge ministers to act on banning this dangerous Iranian organisation now.”
A Home Office spokesman said they would not speculate on proscription of the IRGC in light of the latest terror threat.
Heightened tensions between Iran and the West
It comes amid increased warnings about Iranian-backed plots in the UK.
Last year, the director general of MI5, Ken McCallum, said his organisation and police had responded to 20 Iran-backed plots since January 2022.
In March 2024, Pouria Zeraati, a journalist for London-based Iranian outfit Iran International, was stabbed as he approached his car.
Two Romanian nationals have since been charged in relation to the attack, following a review of evidence provided by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.
At the scene of the Rochdale raid, neighbour Amy Openshaw said there was “lots of screaming” as officers burst into the property and her children came running inside.
She said: “The children were out in the garden and they came running in to me saying there’s men with helmets, masks and guns outside,” she said.
“I have come out and I got told to go back inside. We went upstairs. And I just heard a massive bang. Either a flash bang or them blowing the door off.”
Another resident said he saw “officers carrying guns” as he returned to his home on Saturday, with one telling him to “get back” into his house.
Saturday’s arrests took place amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West.
Last year, Sweden’s security agency warned Iran may have been involved in an attack on the Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen, Denmark.
On Sunday, Iranian-backed Houthi militia attacked Israel’s main international airport with what they claimed was a hypersonic missile that left a huge crater in the ground and injured eight people.
Last month, British jets bombed the Houthis in Yemen for the first time since Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House.
It comes amid negotiations between the United States and Iran over a nuclear deal.
Last night, Mr Trump told NBC News he wanted “total dismantlement” of the nation’s nuclear programme.
In April, it was reported that Mr Trump had given Iran 60 days to agree to a nuclear deal or face military action.
Yet more Nazi gibberish. They’ve been arrested under the UK terror laws, which means a bent judge was presented with hard evidence of terrorist activity. If there’s evidence, why haven’t they been charged?
I have no doubt that MI5 and even MI6 goons were friendly with some of these suspects, and consequently, they’ve been fitted up.
Shehzad Tanweer was allegedly a 7/7 terrorist who at 17yrs of age, worked part time in his father’s fish and chips shop, had £120,000 in his bank account. Clearly put their by an MI5 goon, and when the plan changed, they forgot to remove the cash.
The liquid bombers where the best scientists in the country requires 30 tests to build a liquid bomb in a laboratory, so it could be filmed and used in court. Thames Valley Police were caught in High Wycombe woods, planting evidence. I can’t remember all the details, by all 9 or 11 charged with terror offences were acquitted at their first trial. They were convicted at a subsequent trial.
I am under no illusion that many want to so harm to the Nazi West, and it’s dead easy to develop these angry sheeple into terrorist patsies.
Many UK based Iranians are here, because they don’t like the regime back home, so they’re very open to collaborating with UK intelligence services. I say this as the UK Nazi regime threatens Tehran with more sanctions if they wipe Donald Hitler’s arse.
Only the dumbass majority would fall for this. At a point where iran has its neck on the chopping block of the jew, the fascist “leader” of said shithole decides to send a handful of his “citizens” to blow up something or other in the jew-k. The question is obvious: Why? Why would he do that? What could he possibly gain by doing it? But it’s obvious what the shithole jew-k fascists gain isn’t it. Millions more “we hate the iranians” among the dumbass majority. Thinking, I think, is a lost art.
Persia is one of the roots of our civilisation, whereas Jews are an International Mafia, so these tricks will not work unless we are criminals and/or stupid
LOL..
Pirate Rocks keystone cops are setting about moulding public perception…
that being that the mullahs are now backers of international terrorism and we should blow them up for international jewery, which is unfortunate for them because we all know that it’s NATO and affiliated spookeries..that stage the false flags.
..this is the type of operation they think they excel at…and of course it used to work…but nowadays of course nobody works…because they’ve outsourced any future they may possibly have had..
the ‘Skripal affair’ put the notion of a capable yet perfidious intel agency well and truly to bed…as coppers lumbered around eating sandwiches next to agency actors in haz mats handling the most hehe ‘toxic substance known to man…and the legacy talking heads bleated that the cure for imaginary novichok poisoning was johnsons baby cream, probably rubbed on PC brassnecks hemorrhoids.. as inspector clouseau and the boys traipsed around Salisbury looking for the missing link…
I think they found Vlad Pootins passport at Stone Henge..slightly charred of course and covered in white powder..
dear dear..
When was the last time the SAS were deployed in Nazi UK, where the thicko sheeple were public aware? The 1980 Iranian Embbasy seige, which I happen to belive was an MI6 operation from start to finish.
Here we are today, and the Nazi state required the services of the SAS, to arrest some suspects.
As I pointed out in my earlier comment, many UK based Iranians are anti their home regime, so will readily engage with UK intel in their fake terror scams.
The military, used for simple arrests, with zero evidence. This reminds me of talking with 6’8″ copper at LHR T3 (the old terminal), & it was obvious that he was a military goon in a police uniform. Next, Mossad agents helping the UK Nazi police.
I am not watching the TV, but there’s been consternation at home, with Nazi UKrainian troops marching in London, when Nazi UKraine collaborated with the NAZI Germany before and during WW2, the fecking irony, you can this shit up.
Nigel Farage said: “Friends of mine who live in the Middle East are astonished we haven’t done it.” And which ‘friends’ might they be, Nigel?
its being widely discussed by londons special branch as a fake incident
we had these before the war on iraq and several before the war on germany
sefton delmar spoke openly of it
so forget iran
this was planned some while ago which was why the specialist in false flag attacks
Richard D Hall was silenced
How bloody cohenvenient. Sure, sure, the “Iranians” were about to launch a major “terror” attack but the Brit “anti-terror” squad, temporarily diverted from interrogating Marines over their opposition to lowered standards for sodomites and woemen, nicked it jut in time. Get the f*ck out of here. Anyone who would believe that is dumber than dog shit.
Oddly enough, the “Iranian” terrorists all had tattoos with scribblings in Hebrew, yarmulkes stuffed in their back pockets, and a copy of the Talmud on the sofa…they were subsequently quietly released 5 minutes later and given back their thermite and hatchets…
With “impeccable sources” like The TellyTubby and Yvette Pooper….
who am I to question the (((narrative))) ? 🙄
another false flag? unable see the elephant in the room?
Anyone with at least half a brain knows most terrorism and terrorist groups work on behalf of Western intelligence services.
I see this as bolstering the case for the upcoming war against Iran.
Nigel Farage wants the IRGC proscribed but is, like a lot of politicians, eminently comfortable with helping Israel commit genocide.
Don’t know anyone who wants a war with anyone.
Not a move the public will go for when they have been psyop trained to sing “don’t look back in anger” at any terror attack.
The Telegraph – Reporting Live from Perfidious Albion, lol.
please please get rid pf that awful carl jones
he makes us all puke
Oh, come on! Russians are the enemies of the subjects without a crown. Adding a bit of oriental terror-ed flavor to the usual stale British menu for the masses who are not only loosing their homes but soon will be without a country. Well done lads! That must have been one of the best slumber anyone could have had in the empire since centuries.
“You can this shit up”–more gems from C Jones
The story might have been believable until synagogue was mentioned, a strategically valuable intel asset? Are you serious? “By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War”
The media owners ultimately fulfil:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44 (KJV)
The arrested by the authority of the NSA includes Americans posting unfavourable comments in social media and Brits who complain of crimes committed by the illegal immigrant invaders, because the BBC, funded by mandatory television licencing cannot be relied upon to speak the truth, nor take a stand for what is right.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=297675 The BBC Fight For Propaganda by tts-admin | Oct 31, 202
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There are more, but it is understandable why many in UK, its Commonwealth and US no longer believe the MSM. It is also why the PTB want to censor all social media. The late Russian historian, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn summarised:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8 (KJV)
Part of a media buildup to involving the UK in an attack on Iran. The Iranians would never be so stupid. It’s not that ZOG lies, it’s that the Brits are so dumb that they fall for such transparent nonsense.
“Speculation mounted on Sunday night that the target may have been a synagogue or another target linked to the Jewish community.”
Where have we heard that before? 🤔 🤓