Tehran Denies Any Link To Stabbing Of Iranian TV Presenter In London
deadline.comThe Tehran government has denied that it had any part on the attack on an Iran International TV presenter outside his London home.
Pouria Zeraati was stabbed in the leg outside his south-west London home Friday. He is recovering in hospital, from where he posted a picture on social media over the weekend.
Two unidentified men were reported to have committed the assault, before jumping into a waiting getaway car. The Observer newspaper reports Iran’s charge d’affaires, Mehdi Hosseini Matin, as asserting that Iran “denies any link” to the attack on Zeraati.
Matin took to social media Saturday, saying Iran had “no link to this story of this so-called journalist.” He wrote that the claim was “without evidence.” It adds that the Metropolitan police said a motive for the attack was not yet clear, but Zeraati’s job and recent threats to UK-based Iranian journalists meant the investigation was being led by counter-terrorism officers.
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