Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg Friday afternoon and is in stable condition at a hospital, the station said.
London's Metropolitan Police Service said Zeraati's occupation, together with recent threats to U.K.-based Iranian journalists, triggered the counterterrorism probe, even though the motivation for the attack is still unclear.
Although the channel's journalists have been threatened in the past, this is the first attack of its kind, Baillie told the BBC.
Police say they have disrupted a number of plots to kill or kidnap people in the U.K. who were seen as enemies of the Iranian government.
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