Iran’s ambassador to the UK will be summoned after counterterrorism police arrested two groups of Iranians in separate operations last weekend, security minister Dan Jarvis said on Tuesday. Jarvis told the House of Commons the arrests of eight Iranian nationals were “some of the largest counter-state threats and counterterrorism actions that we have seen in recent times”.

Asylum hotels were searched as counter-terror police and military personnel detained five Iranian nationals over the weekend, GB News can reveal. As part of the pre-planned operation, five men were arrested by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.