Iranian journalist stabbed in UK ‘shocked’ by police response to prior incident

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An Iranian journalist who was stabbed in the street in London in an attack said to be on Tehran’s orders has said he is “shocked” by how police handled a “hostile reconnaissance” in the lead-up to his assault.

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00:00On Friday, jurors at Woolwich Crown Courts found Romanian nationals 21-year-old Nandito Badea and 25-year-old George

00:09Stanner both guilty of wounding with a tent to cause grievous bodily harm.

00:14Iran international journalist Porir Zuriati was left bleeding in the streets after he was attacked by proxies of the Iranian

00:24regime outside his home in Wimbledon on 29 March 2024.

00:31In an interview with ITV News, Mr Zuriati revealed that since 2022 he and his wife had been receiving threats

00:39and around a year before the attack she filmed two men behaving suspiciously near their home.

00:45It transpired that one of the men in the footage was Stanner and Mr Zuriati said police should have considered

00:53that the 2023 incident was linked to him.

00:57Asked for his reaction to the Metropolitan Police's handling of the incident, Mr Zuriati said it's not something that he

01:05expected and that he was really shocked.

01:09Scotland Yard said that although the incident was not identified as being targeted towards Mr Zuriati at the time,

01:17they later found out that it had likely been the first example of hostile recognizance being carried out by Stanner.

01:27So we've got more than Azfter.

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01:28We attend this storm conversion and we still needchief to try to explain to the director of the situation.

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