An hour after a British court found two men guilty of spying for one of Iran's intelligence agencies by spying on journalists and a lawyer, Iran's embassy in the UK has rejected all espionage and security charges.
Iran's diplomatic representative in the United Kingdom, in official statements, called the arrest and indictment of Mustafa Safwand and Farhad Javad from Yemen on charges of "assisting Iran's intelligence service" a "destructive action by the British judicial authorities" and rejected any connection between these people and the Iranian government.
The embassy of the Republic of Salami in the UK saw these accusations as "using a tool to promote political goals against Iran".
This statement also saw this procedure as "creating hostile narratives against the Islamic Republic of Iran" and wrote that these actions cause "skepticism towards the community of Iranians living in the UK". In this statement, the Iranian Embassy emphasized the responsibility of the British government to protect the rights of Iranian citizens, including access to a lawyer, the right to pursue them and consular access.
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