UK court convicts 2 Iranian men of spying on journalists

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Two Iranian men were found guilty of spying in dissident journalists in Britain on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Thursday. British counterterrorism police said the case reflected intensifying hostile Iranian activity in the country, an issue that recently made headlines amid the security scare at the RAF Fairford airbase that's a major operational site in Europe for the US Air Force. The men, both in their 40s, were arrested last year, with Iran repeatedly rejecting the allegations against them. The Woolwich Crown Court in London convicted one of the Iranian citizens not just of spying on journalists working for the Persian-language dissident TV channel Iran International, but of plotting a violent attack against one or more of them.