The British government on Friday accused Iran of making death threats against Iranian journalists in the United Kingdom, and for this reason summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires, British foreign minister James Cleverley said, according to AFP.

“I summoned Iran’s Charge d’Affaires today (excluding Friday) after journalists working in the UK received death threats from Iran,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley wrote on Twitter.

“We do not tolerate threats or intimidation from foreign countries against people living in the UK,” he added.

London’s announcement comes after Iran International, a London-based Persian-language TV channel, announced earlier this week that two of its journalists working in the UK had received death threats from the Revolutionary Guards (Tehran’s ideological army).

According to the group that owns the channel, the scale of the threats led London police to “officially advise the two journalists that these threats pose an imminent, probable and significant risk to their lives and families”.

Iran International reported on protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who died three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating the dress code. The Islamic Republic, which requires women, in particular, to wear a veil.

According to data provided by an NGO outside Iran, the protests were brutally suppressed, resulting in approximately two hundred deaths. Dozens of journalists were also arrested in the country.

For their part, the Iranian authorities accuse London of hosting these hostile Persian channels that broadcast the demonstrations. Tehran said on Wednesday that London was trying to destabilize the Islamic Republic and that it was “obviously” involved in protest “propaganda”.

In early October, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest against the “interference of the British Foreign Ministry in Iran’s internal affairs.”

The announcement that Iran’s chargé d’affaires had been summoned came after British police announced on Friday that they had put a “protection plan” in place against Scotland-based Iranian wrestling champion Melika Balali, who had also received apparent threats, according to with data. according to him, from the authorities of Iran.

Melika Balali, 22, who has been campaigning for women’s rights in Iran since leaving the country a year ago, publicly expressed her support for the Iranian protesters.

“They tried to find out where I live and who I train with,” she said in an interview with the BBC on Thursday.