内容摘要："If stores are so paranoid about shoppers stealing goods, then they should go back to staffed tills instead of wasting money on this invasive technology."

"If stores are so paranoid about shoppers stealing goods, then they should go back to staffed tills instead of wasting money on this invasive technology."

"We call on the Iranian authorities to immediately cease this campaign of intimidation," the BBC's director general Tim Davie said in a statement on Monday.Tehran is yet to respond to the latest allegations from the BBC. The Iranian regime has previously been accused of conducting unlawful operations against journalists abroad.

It has denied those allegations and accused the BBC of spreading false information to encourage its overthrow.reaches a weekly global audience of almost 22 million people, including around 13 million in Iran, where the service is banned.The BBC has previously said that the Iranian regime has targeted its Persian language journalists covering the country over the past decade - prompting the broadcaster to lodge urgent complaints with the UN Human Rights Council in 2018 and again

But there had been a "significant and increasingly alarming escalation" recently, the BBC said on Monday."In addition to enduring personal security threats from Iranian state actors operating beyond Iran's borders, BBC News Persian journalists are now witnessing a disturbing rise in the persecution of their family members inside Iran," said BBC Director-General Tim Davie.

"This persecution is a direct assault on press freedom and human rights. It must end now."

The broadcaster said it was preparing a fresh complaint to the UN.The indictment also alleges the pair enlisted two individuals in the US to carry out a plot that would have prevented a victim from protesting against Chinese President Xi Jinping's attendance at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit held in Los Angeles in November 2023.

Mr Miller and Mr Cui were unaware that those two individuals - identified in court documents as "Individual 1" and "Individual 2" - were acting at the direction of the FBI."The indictment alleges that Chinese foreign actors targeted a victim in our nation because he criticised the Chinese government and its president," said US Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California.

"My office will continue to use all legal methods available to hold accountable foreign nationals engaging in criminal activity on our soil."A similar scheme allegedly played out in the spring of 2025, when the alleged victim announced in a public video feed that he planned to unveil two new artistic statues that depicted Xi and his wife.