More than 50 people have been arrested in “Iran-linked operations” in the past year in the UK and Jews are the target of “much of this aggression”, the head of MI5 has said.
In his annual threat assessment speech on Tuesday, Sir Ken McCallum said there had been increased Iranian action against Jewish sites, as well as a move towards harder targets such as military bases.
Russia was still “aggressor number one”, but Iran was “the other state keen on subcontracting its UK violence”, he explained.
He went on: “I've been calling this out since 2022. Today we continue to see familiar Iranian intent - using criminal proxies to intimidate oppositionists, Iranian media organisations and and Israeli sites.
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