Iranian men guilty of spying on British journalists
Two Iranian men were convicted under Britain’s National Security Act for spying on dissident journalists.
![Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, were found guilty on Nov. 12, 2026 of spying on dissident journalists in Britain on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a case British police said reflected increasing activity by Iran. [London Metropolitan Police via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/image-1794512162.jpg?resize=770%2C433&quality=80)
Two Iranian men were convicted under Britain’s National Security Act for spying on dissident journalists.
![Mostafa Sepahvand, 41, and Farhad Javadi Manesh, 46, were found guilty on Nov. 12, 2026 of spying on dissident journalists in Britain on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, a case British police said reflected increasing activity by Iran. [London Metropolitan Police via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/image-1794512162.jpg?resize=770%2C433&quality=80)
![Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf gives a press conference at an event marking 40 days since the burial of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at Imam Hassan al-Mujtaba Mosque in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on August 20, 2026. [Karar Jabbar/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/AFP__20260820__C66784N__v1__HighRes__IraqIranPoliticsDiplomacyReligionIslamShia-1787255506.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)






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