Overview

• The joint declaration by the United States, Canada and 12 European allies labels Iran’s extraterritorial operations as clear breaches of national sovereignty.
• The statement highlights evidence that Iranian intelligence is working with organised crime groups to target journalists, dissidents, Jewish communities and officials.
• European authorities arrested a suspect in Denmark accused of surveilling Jewish sites in Berlin and conducted UK raids to detain individuals linked to planned attacks.
• US Department of Justice prosecutions earlier this year secured two convictions and a guilty plea in a plot by gang members and a senior Iranian official to assassinate an Iranian-American journalist.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the allegations as baseless, calling the allied rebuke unwarranted.