The men were members of a team that flew in from Romania and spent a month running surveillance operations on a house in an exclusive street in Wimbledon, south London.
Pouria Zeraati was stabbed three times in the leg in an attack in broad daylight outside his home as he was making his way to his Tesla to drive to the studio for his show.
Duncan Atkinson KC, prosecuting, said the attack was “deliberate, planned violence” aimed at causing serious injury to Zeraati as part of a campaign of “harassment and intimidation” by Iran.
Nandito Badea, 21, a former professional footballer, approached and asked Zeraati if he had any change as David Andrei, 22, grabbed the presenter from behind, pinning his arms to his side.
Badea, who was wearing a hooded top with the word “gangster” on the front, drew a knife and stabbed him before both men, who had been taking drugs, ran off laughing.
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