Iran has called in Britain's envoy in Tehran to protest after London alleged Tehran had made "threats" to the lives of UK-based journalists.
The tit-for-tat move came Tuesday as Iran's charge d'affaires in London Mehdi Hosseini Matin was hauled in to hear a British protest over the alleged threats that forced Persian-language TV network Iran International to announce last week that it was relocating from London, reports AFP.
The IRNA news agency reported that "Following the continued baseless accusations from England against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Isabelle Marsh, temporary chargee d'affaires of that country's embassy in Tehran, was summoned to the foreign ministry on Tuesday.
On Saturday last, Iran International announced that it had been forced on UK police advice to shut down its London TV studios, and had switched to 24-hour broadcasting from Washington.
The station has provided extensive coverage of anti-government protests that erupted in Iran five months ago.
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