ARMED counter-terror cops yesterday arrested four men at gunpoint over a suspected Iranian spying plot aimed at Jewish targets in the UK.
Stun grenades rocked the streets during 1am raids.
The swoops follow a joint investigation by police and MI5.
All four suspects — one Iranian and three with dual British and Iranian nationality — were held under the National Security Act.
Exclusive photos show Counter Terrorism Specialist Firearms Officers outside a semi in Finchley, in the London borough of Barnet.
Residents were woken by shouting followed by smashing glass and explosions as smoke grenades were hurled into the £760,000 three-bedroom property.
A local said: “We were woken by armed police climbing fences. Officers stormed upstairs and you could see them bringing a man to the sitting room. He appeared to be handcuffed.
“There were at least eight to ten unmarked police cars and three unmarked vans.
“Then uniformed police turned up in marked vans.”
Police said two men, aged 40 and 55, were held in the borough of Barnet.
Elsewhere, a man, 52, was arrested at an £800,000 house in Watford.
The fourth suspect, aged 22, was arrested in Harrow.
In addition, four men — aged 29, 39, 42, 49 — and two aged 20, were arrested at the Harrow location on suspicion of assisting an offender.
One of those was also arrested for assaulting a cop by allegedly biting his finger.
All ten were in custody last night.
Cops have up to two weeks to decide whether to charge or release them.
At least one car, computers and phones were seized in the raids, and an address in Wembley also searched.
Met Commander Helen Flanagan said: “Today’s arrests are part of a long-running investigation and part of our work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it.”
