Man accused of using hidden camera to spy on UK-based Iranian journalist

A Greek nationalist has been charged with assisting a overseas quality work linked to Iran.

Ioannis Aidinidis, 46, was charged connected Friday nether the National Security Act aft an probe by Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London.

The Met said Aidinidis is accused of helping an quality work "believed to beryllium Iran" by "targeting of a UK-based writer moving for Iran International".

Aidinidis, who lives successful Munich, Germany, is owed to look astatine Westminster Magistrates' tribunal connected Friday.

He has been successful custody since his apprehension successful West Sussex connected 16 May.

"We cognize this whitethorn origin interest for galore radical present successful the UK, and peculiarly those moving successful Persian-language media," Commander Helen Flanagan, caput of CTP London, said.

She added that the unit was providing proposal and information enactment to a fig of organisations and individuals, including "the circumstantial idiosyncratic and organisation linked to this investigation".

Police said determination was not believed to beryllium a wider menace to the public.

In April, 3 radical were charged implicit an attempted arson onslaught connected the offices of Iran International successful north-west London.

An Islamist radical with imaginable links to Iran - Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya - claimed work for the attack. The assertion has not been substantiated.

In a connection past month, Iran International said it had been taxable to a "campaign of transnational intimidation aimed astatine silencing autarkic journalism".