The BBC linked the Golders Green stabbing to an Iranian terror group. Prosecutors are not alleging terrorism.

The BBC used the Golders Green stabbing to make a US claim of Iranian terror attacks look proven. Prosecutors dropped the terror link in September. The BBC left that out.

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The US says an Iranian network claimed 18 attacks in Europe this spring, including "a near-fatal stabbing in London of two Jewish men". It did not name the attack. The BBC named it: "Two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, in April."

Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were stabbed in Golders Green on 29 April. In September the Crown Prosecution Service told the court it "will not be pursuing a terrorist connection" (Metropolitan Police), and the case is now treated as a suspected hate crime. In April, investigators had called the claim "most likely to be opportunistic" (Guardian).

By naming a real case, the BBC made a list of claimed attacks look proven, and left out that UK prosecutors no longer treat that case as terrorism. Ask the BBC to correct it.