Police insisted they had found no evidence of a plot and said that the incident was not believed to be linked to any direct threat to the public.
A businessman has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism over an alleged attempt to import radioactive uranium into Britain.
The arrest of the man, who is in his 60s, could affect already heightened tensions between London and Tehran after the execution of a UK-Iranian dual national charged with spying for MI6. The execution last week of Alireza Akbari, a former Iranian deputy defence minister with dual UK nationality, prompted the Foreign Secretary to summon Iran’s chargé d’affaires to register his “disgust”. Mr Akbari was charged with spying for MI6 amid claims he was tortured for 3,500 hours before being executed. Tehran’s military support for Russia in its war with Ukraine has further angered the West.
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