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People walk past the gated entrance to the road housing the Israeli embassy in London on June 15, 2025. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
October 9, 2026, 11:06 pm
Two men deny carrying out surveillance for Iran of Israeli embassy in UK
Pair are also accused of staking out Britain’s oldest synagogue and other Israeli, Jewish targets
By Reuters
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration to mark Jerusalem Day in Tehran, May 31, 2019. (Saeid Zareian/DPA/Reuters); Israel’s UK Embassy in Kensington, west London, March 23, 2010. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)
September 6, 2026, 6:29 pm
2 London apartments near Israeli embassy thought to be owned by Khamenei go up for sale
Properties reportedly put up for sale when Iranian banker Ali Ansari, believed to be supreme leader’s frontman, defaults on mortgages after being sanctioned by UK and US
By ToI Staff
UK Conservative Party MP Greg Smith at the Churchill War Rooms, in London, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
April 20, 2026, 1:55 pm
Iran ‘is our war,’ says UK lawmaker Greg Smith — contrary to PM Starmer’s claims
The new head of the Conservative Friends of Israel lambasts the Labour party’s handling of the US-Israel conflict with Iran, as antisemitism in Britain reaches ‘appalling’ levels
By Robert Philpot
A Vanguard-class submarine undergoes maintenance at HM Naval Base Clyde at Faslane, north-west of Glasgow, Scotland, April 28, 2023. (Andy Buchanan / AFP)
March 20, 2026, 4:41 pm
UK cops arrest suspected Iranian spies for trying to enter nuclear submarine base
Arrests at base housing Britain’s nuclear-armed submarine fleet come amid rising Iran-linked threats in Britain, three weeks into the US-Israel war against the Islamic Republic
By Agencies
Eskandar Momeni. (Courtesy)
February 2, 2026, 7:04 pm
UK sanctions Iran interior minister, other officials over protester crackdown
Measures including asset freeze and travel ban placed on minister, senior police chiefs, Revolutionary Guard figures, judges and a security agency for human rights violations
By Agencies
A billboard bearing a painting of a missile falling on Israel with a Farsi slogan reading 'The missile has fallen amidst the demons,' July 16, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
July 25, 2025, 9:50 am
Iran meets European powers for new nuclear talks amid snapback sanctions threat
German, British and French diplomats in Istanbul to meet Iranian counterparts for first time since war with Israel, as powers weigh reimposing UN sanctions
By AFP
Illustrative: Police stand guard outside the Iranian embassy after a small group of protesters threw paint at the building in London, September 25, 2022. (AP/ Alastair Grant)
July 10, 2025, 3:28 pm
Iran poses significant threat to United Kingdom, British lawmakers say in new report
UK parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee says risk from Tehran includes physical attacks, assassinations of dissidents and Jewish targets, espionage and cyber warfare
By Reuters
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attends a meeting with his Armenian counterpart in Yerevan on March 25, 2025. (Karen Minasyan/AFP)
April 24, 2025, 9:54 pm
Iranian foreign minister says country ready for dialogue with UK, France and Germany
Abbas Araghchi writes on X that nuclear program and ‘each and every other area of mutual interest’ on the table; comments come as talks with US set to continue in Muscat
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian demonstrators flash the victory sign as they hold an Iranian flag and a model of a bullet during an anti-Israeli gathering at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 14, 2024, 3:19 pm
Iran chides UK, French, German envoys for ‘irresponsible stance’ to strikes on Israel
As Iran’s foreign ministry lambasts European countries for ‘double standards,’ Russia backs Tehran’s claim of self-defense, expresses ‘extreme concern’ over ‘dangerous escalation’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
In this photo released by KhabarOnline News Agency on September 18, 2019, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in an interview. (KhabarOnline News Agency via AP, File)
May 1, 2023, 4:51 pm
Report: Israel got intel on Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program from executed spy
NY Times says UK told Israel about nuclear activity at Fordo based on info from Ali Reza Akbari, who was hanged in January; Russia assisted Tehran in identifying source of leak
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Iranians mourn in front of the coffins during a funeral for people killed in a shooting attack, in the city of Izeh in Iran's Khuzestan province, on November 18, 2022. (ALIREZA MOHAMMADI/isna/AFP)
January 24, 2023, 2:23 pm
Iran pans ‘mental inability’ of EU, UK after they impose sanctions; vows response
Tehran threatens ‘sanctions against human rights violators and promoters of terrorism in the European Union and England’ after restrictions in response to protest crackdown
By AFP
Iran's Revolutionary Guard troops march in a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
January 14, 2023, 7:20 pm
UK weighing labeling IRGC a terror group may have influenced execution — ex-envoy
Richard Dalton says Tehran was also potentially sending a warning to any other would-be collaborators with foreign powers as national unrest continues
By AFP
Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri in 2018. (Fars Media Corporation, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
January 14, 2023, 5:33 pm
UK sanctions Iran prosecutor general over British-Iranian’s execution on spy charges
Tehran, meanwhile, summons British ambassador hours after former top defense official Alireza Akbari is hanged
By Agencies
In this photo released by KhabarOnline News Agency on September 18, 2019, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in an interview. (KhabarOnline News Agency via AP, File)
January 14, 2023, 9:28 am
Iran executes former deputy defense minister, a dual UK national, accused of spying
Iran claims, without evidence, that Ali Reza Akbari spied for Britain’s MI6; in assumed coerced confession, Akbari says Britain asked him about nuke scientist said killed by Israel
By Agencies
Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)
December 10, 2022, 6:10 pm
Iran again summons UK, German envoys amid anti-regime protests
Western diplomats in Tehran called in 15 times in recent weeks over what officials say is ‘unprecedented pressure against Iran’
By AFP
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