Threat of Iranian attacks on UK now comparable to Russia, watchdog warns

Iran’s threat of physical attacks on England warned a guard dog.

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee said in a report published on Thursday that Iran’s threat has been “significantly” since 2022 and “permanent” and “unpredictable”.

Referring to the examples of Iran’s 15 tests or the abduction of British citizens or inhabitants of the UK, the committee said that the country’s physical threat can be compared with the threat arising by Russia ”.

The former workers’ deputy, now known as Lord Beamish, warned Iran that Iran is a “high appetite while carrying out aggressive activity in foreign lands, known as Lord Beamish. “Intelligence services are wildly well caused by important areas of asymmetric power,” he said.

Lord Beamish said that the committee is particularly concerned about the increase in physical threats against the opponents and other opponents of the Iranian regime, and that the assassination was worried that the assassination was used as a “state policy tool ..

The report comes after hundreds of deputies and peers, including former retired leader Lord Kinnock, to call Sir Keir Starmer to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after the three Iranian men were accused of spying in London.

A letter seen by Independent“The implementation of this weakening regime betrays democratic values, strengthens its oppressive policies, and weakens global security while maintaining Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and terrorism.”

Lord Beamish’s Committee’s government called on the IRGC to think whether prohibition as a terrorist organization and making a complete statement to parliament on this issue was “legally possible and applicable”.

The report also warned that Iran’s nuclear threat has increased since the US withdrawn from a key international agreement in 2018, and that it should be a priority ”.

The examination of the nine -member committee examining the work of the UK’s intelligence organizations covers the period up to August 2023, whose publication was delayed by last year’s elections.

From the beginning of 2022, the committee has attempted to kill or kidnap Iran’s British citizens or UK residents until the end of the collection of evidence.

The Committee Government explicitly called on Tehran to clearly state that such initiatives would “create an attack on England and get the appropriate answer”.

Lord Beamish added: “Iran, England, the UK citizens and the UK interests are a comprehensive, permanent and unpredictable threat.

“As the committee is said, Iran is in the full spectrum of any kind of threat type we should take care of.”

Since August 2023, the international painting has changed in October of that year when Hamas attacked Israel after the war eruption.

While Iranian deputies such as Savaş, Hamas and Hezbollah were weakened, the US and Israel carried out air strikes at Iran’s nuclear facilities last month.

However, despite these changes, the Committee insisted that his suggestions remained “relevant ..

Although Iran has not developed a nuclear weapon or decided to produce one by August 2023, it has warned that it has taken steps towards this goal in recent years.

He found that Iran was “extensively compatible ile with the 2015 Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA), which limits Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

However, since the US has been withdrawn from the 2018 agreement since the Donald Trump administration, a nuclear Iranian threat had increased and Tehran had the ability to arms in a relatively short time ”.

He also warned that Britain remained a target for the Iranian espionage, which Britain found that it was “narrow more and more sophisticated than Russia and China’s threat.

As Iran entered the political intervention activity, he said that this was a “negligible effect ..

However, the report warned that Iran -backed cultural and educational centers can be used to “encourage violence and pro -excessive ideology like the Islamic center of the UK.

The Committee said that Iran’s desire to carry out digital attacks in the face of cyber security throughout England is also “important” to raise the flexibility bar ”.

Regarding the government’s reaction to the Iranian threat, the committee warned that policy is not “focus on crisis management” and “longer -term thinking üzerinde on Iran’s nuclear program.

He also criticized by saying that “lack of expertise -specific expertise” is not interested in creating a pipeline ”.

A witness said to the committee: “If there are policies that do not promise Persian in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then this is a very good thing.”

The Committee also called on to rethink that Britain imposed sanctions on Iran by August 2023 and imposed 508 organizations and 1,189 people on Iran, but whether it would “provide behavioral changes in practice or actually direct Iran to China”.

However, he welcomed the decision to place Iran in the “advanced layer of the new foreign impact registration program and put extra loads on people who act in the name of Tehran in England.