The private network Iran International TV has said that it has been forced on UK police advice to shut down its London studios, blaming a surge in threats from the protest-hit regime in Iran
The station has been giving extensive coverage to anti-regime demonstrations that erupted in Iran five months ago, and says two of its senior journalists received death threats in response to their reporting.
The studios are located in a business park that also hosts several foreign multinationals, housing thousands of staff in total. "A foreign state has caused such a significant threat to the British public on British soil that we have to move," Mr Enayat said."Even more, this is an assault on the values of sovereignty, security and free speech that the UK has always held dear," he said.
The Met police said that despite Mr Dovtaev's arrest,"we still have serious concerns for the safety of people working at this company". A similar number work for the station in Washington, serving a global audience of 30-40 million Farsi speakers, Mr Baillie said, denying regime claims that it is in league with exiled Iranian opposition groups."They took the whole thing extremely seriously, with seven armed response teams on site at one point," he told AFP.
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