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UK MI5 director warns of rise in deadly plots orchestrated by Russia and Iran
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According to MI5 director-general Ken McCallum, Russia and Iran are escalating their operations on British soil, posing a significant threat to national security. McCallum specifically stated that Russia's intelligence agents are becoming increasingly reckless and that Iran may repurpose its existing criminal network to launch attacks on British citizens.
The GRU in particular is on a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets: we've seen arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.
It will be clear to you that MI5 has one hell of a job on its hands.
We've seen arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.
Extreme right-wing terrorism in particular skews heavily towards young people, driven by propaganda that shows a canny understanding of online culture.
The first 20 years of my career here were crammed full of terrorist threats.
We're seeing far too many cases where very young people are being drawn into poisonous online extremism.
We now face those alongside state-backed assassination and sabotage plots, against the backdrop of a major European land war.
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perspectives
- 1.Russian Foreign Policy
- 2.British Foreign Policy
- 3.Iran Foreign Policy
- 4.Espionage
- 5.Assassination Attempt
- 6.Assassination
- 7.Sabotage
- 8.Russia-UK Relations
countries
- 1.Afghanistan
- 2.China
- 3.Germany
- 4.United Kingdom
- 5.Israel
- 6.Iraq
- 7.Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 8.Lebanon
- 9.Russian Federation
- 10.Sweden
- 11.Syrian Arab Republic
- 12.Ukraine
organizations
- 1.MI5
- 2.Islamic State
- 3.Hamas
- 4.al-Qaeda
- 5.Counter Terrorism Operations Centre
- 6.Hezbollah
- 7.Houthi
- 8.ISIL
- 9.Kremlin
- 10.Russian Intelligence Services