Danger of physical attacks By Iran People living in the UK have increased since 2022 since 2022, warning by the intelligence guards of Parliament.
Parliamentary Intelligence and security committee Said Iran’s threat was “frequent” And “unexpected” in a report published on Thursday.
After searching Examples of examples of 15 murders Or kidnapping British citizens or British residents by Iran, the committee stated that the physical threat generated by the country is “comparable to the danger generated by Russia”.
Its report focused on Iranian disgruntled and the interests of Jews and Israel.
It also warned that the nuclear threat from Iran had increased from Iran after being pulled out of a major international agreement in 2018, arguing de-skeleton “should be a priority”.
The report of the nine-member committee, which investigates the work of Britain’s intelligence agencies, only covers the period till August 2023, delayed its publication in last year’s election.
From the beginning of 2022 and from the end of the committee’s evidence-coaching in August 2023, the report found that Iran had made at least 15 attempts by Iran to kill or kidnap British citizens or British residents.
The committee urged the government to clarify Tehran Such efforts will “attack the UK and receive proper response”.
Committee Chairman Lord Bimish said: “Iran is a broad, consistent and unpredictable threat to the UK, UK citizens and Britain’s interests”.
Describing Iran’s “high hunger for risk” while conducting aggressive activity, he said: “As the committee was told, Iran is in the full spectrum of all kinds of dangers that we have to be worried.”
His committee also recommended that the government consider whether it was “legally possible and practical” to prosecute Iran. Islamic revolutionary guard core (IRGC) as a terrorist organization and gives a complete statement to Parliament on the issue.
The ministers have faced calls in recent years to ban IRGC, but the committee had “complications” in such decisions.
Since August 2023, international paintings have changed with the outbreak of war HamasAttack on Israel in October of that year.
The war has seen behind the Iranian screen as Hamas and Hizbullah weakened, while last month the US and Israel carried out airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Tehran was close to developing an nuclear weapon on concerns.
But the committee insisted that despite these changes, its recommendations remain “relevant”.
The committee warned that, while Iran had neither developed an nuclear weapon nor decided to produce one by August 2023, it had moved towards that goal in recent years.
It was found that Iran was “widely obedient” with the joint comprehensive plan (JCPOA) of the 2015, which limited its atomic ambitions.
But since America under America Donald Trump Out of this deal in 2018, the threat of an atom Iran had increased and Tehran “had the ability to handle in a relatively short period”.
It also warned that the UK remained a target for Iranian espionage, which was found that “was” narrow in scope and scale “and” less sophisticated “than the threat from Russia and China.
And when Iran was engaged in political intervention activity, it said that it was a “negligible effect”.
But the report warned that Iran -backed cultural and educational centers such as the Islamic Center of England could be used to “promote violent and extremist ideology”.
The committee said that “necessary” was also “necessary” to “increase the flexibility bar” on cyber security in the UK due to Iran’s desire to carry out digital attacks.
Regarding the government’s response to the Iranian threat, the committee warned that the policy “suffered from focusing on Iran’s nuclear program” was suffering from focusing on crisis management “and lacked” long -term thinking “.
It also criticized “Iran-specific expertise lack”, stating that “experts were not interested in creating future pipelines”.
A witness told the committee: “If you have a policy in the foreign office who do not speak a word of Persian, then it is very good.”
The committee also mentioned that the UK had approved 508 persons and 1,189 persons belonging to Iran by August 2023, but urged the government to reconsider whether the ban would enter behavior in behavior in behavior or actually inadvertently push Iran towards China “.
But it welcomed Iran’s decision to put Iran in the “Enhanced Tier” of the new foreign influence registration scheme, putting additional burden on the people working on behalf of Tehran in Britain.
