The BBC is calling on Iran to halt its escalating campaign of cross-border threats and harassment against the British broadcaster’s journalists and their families.
In a Friday news release, the BBC said Iran has carried out a more than decade-long “campaign of harassment and intimidation, which has included death threats, freezing of assets in Iran and online attacks targeting BBC News Persian staff. Their Iran-based family members have been arbitrarily detained and faced other forms of discrimination, the statement said.
