{"id":90429,"date":"2026-06-09T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90429"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:07:39","slug":"iran-backed-gang-that-hired-norwegian-hitman-to-kill-in-the-uk-recruits-children-as-young-as-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/09\/iran-backed-gang-that-hired-norwegian-hitman-to-kill-in-the-uk-recruits-children-as-young-as-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-backed gang that &#8216;hired Norwegian hitman to kill in the UK&#8217; recruits children as young as 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25bKuD.img?w=634&h=381&m=6&x=248&y=49&s=100&d=100\" alt=\"Johannes Natland, 19, travelled from the oil-rich town of Stavanger, south west Norway, to assassinate a target in the UK 'in return for money', the Old Bailey was told\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Iran-backed gang that allegedly hired a teenage Norwegian hitman to kill in the UK recruits children as young as 13 for murder, a court heard.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/iran-backed-gang-that-hired-norwegian-hitman-to-kill-in-the-uk-recruits-children-as-young-as-13\/ar-AA25co9F?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a281abe699b4a9bb3e6fcdb4f60c723&ei=18\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An Iran-backed gang that allegedly hired a teenage Norwegian hitman to kill in the UK recruits children as young as 13 for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Johannes-Natland.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90431,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90429\/revisions\/90431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}