UK police arrest 7 Iranians in ‘biggest’ counter-state, anti-terrorism operation

British police said Sunday that they had arrested eight people, including seven Iranian nationals, on suspicion of "terrorism offences." The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that the authorities felt they had been dealing with an imminent attack.(Representative) Britain's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, described the arrests, which come amid heightened concerns about Iranian activities on UK soil, as two major operations. In one operation, five men -- four of them Iranian -- were arrested on