Seven Iranian nationals were among eight men arrested in two separate operations on Saturday.
The 40-year-old was one of five suspects detained with other arrests in Swindon, London, Manchester and Stockport over an alleged plot to target a “specific premises”.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described it as one of the biggest counter-state and counter-terrorism operations in recent years.
Police forensic officers search a house in Rochdale, England. Four of five men arrested under the Terrorism Act (TACT) are Iranian nationals (Photo: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images)
Aldworth said special forces joining a counter-terror raid was “very rare”, adding that deploying heavily armed officers indicated “potentially a very late stage plot”.
“That suggests to me that this was potentially quite a late stage plot, so a plot that’s quite close to maturity.
“The deployment of firearms is permitted where it’s believed that you know the person you’re going to arrest, it may well be the only way that you can control them is through lethal force.”
Counter Terrorist Specialist Firearms Officers (CTSFOs) also stormed the property on a terraced street before a shirtless man was led out.
In the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, an SAS ‘Blue Thunder’ helicopter landed on London Bridge with special forces hunting for one of the attackers carrying out a controlled explosion at Southwark Cathedral.
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“We used to train the special forces. Sometimes we’d have special forces medics attached to our teams, really for their experience more than anything.
Dominic Murphy, the head of counter terrorism at the Met Police, said the force made all the arrests they sought to on Saturday, but several hundred officers are still working on the investigations, which are in their early stages.
Those arrested include a 29-year-old man in the Swindon area, a 46-year-old man in west London, a 29-year-old man in the Stockport area, a 40-year-old man in Rochdale and a fifth man in the Manchester area. They remain in custody.
Section 27 allows police to make arrests without a warrant if they reasonably suspect them of being involved in “foreign power threat activity”.
MPs have called for the Government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“It was obvious through that work that the threats didn’t just originate from Russia. They originated from Iran. They originated from North Korea. They originated from several states,” he said.
“So it’s not beyond the realms of probability that these attacks in the UK would be orchestrated by the Iranian government.”
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