Metropolitan Police in the U.K. said on Tuesday that the suspects behind the assassination attempt of an exiled Iranian journalist fled the country shortly after the attack.
Pouria Zeraati, the host Iran International’s “Last Word,” was stabbed by a group as he walked out of his home last week. He was hospitalized for a couple of days before being released.
The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command was leading the investigation into the attack given the specific threats that other journalists at the Persian-language news organization have received that have originated from Iranian intelligence officials.
“Detectives investigating a stabbing in Wimbledon, south London, believe three suspects were involved and have since recovered a vehicle linked to the attack,” the statement said. “Detectives have established the victim was approached by two men in a residential street and…
