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   Parent company Volant Media said the Metropolitan Police had notified the pair of a recent increase in "credible" threats from Iranian security forces. It denounced the "escalation of a state-sponsored campaign to intimidate Iranian journalists working abroad". Iranian authorities have not commented. However, they announced sanctions against Iran International and BBC News Persian last month, accusing them of "incitement of riots" and "support of terrorism" over their coverage of the anti-government protests that have engulfed the country over the past two months. The two UK-based channels are already banned from Iran, but a press freedom watchdog says they are among the main sources of news and information in a country where independent media and journalists are constantly persecuted.  Volant Media said in a statement that it was "shocked and deeply concerned" by the threats its journalists had received , which it attributed to Ir...