Two men have been found guilty of engaging in conduct likely to assist Iranian intelligence, BBC News reported. The men, Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Javadi Manesh, were convicted over a plan that the outlet's headline describes as one to target UK-based journalists.

The Guardian reported that Sepahvand, 41, and Javadi Manesh, 46, were hired through social media as part of a plan to "eliminate" journalists in the UK. According to its summary, the two men of Iranian origin carried out surveillance in an effort to inflict violence on three people. In its report, written by Rajeev Syal, the home affairs editor, The Guardian described the men as having been found guilty of engaging in conduct likely to assist Tehran's intelligence services.

The two reports differ in emphasis. BBC News's headline describes the plan as one to target UK-based journalists, while The Guardian's summary says the surveillance aimed to inflict violence on three people and does not identify those three as journalists. Neither outlet's summary states when the verdicts were returned or what sentences, if any, have been imposed.

Both summaries describe the case as involving conduct that could assist Iranian intelligence, but only The Guardian's summary mentions recruitment through social media and surveillance. The BBC summary does not give the men's ages, and The Guardian's summary is cut off before it finishes describing the case.

Sources: BBC News: Two men found guilty of spying for Iran over plan to target UK-based journalists; The Guardian: Two men found guilty over Iranian attempts to ‘eliminate’ UK-based journalists.