MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military sites and suspected plot at RAF Fairford is ‘not unique’
Ken McCallum said Tehran is expanding attacks beyond dissidents as investigators examine a suspected plot at RAF Fairford and seven men remain on bail.
- On Tuesday, MI5 head Ken McCallum warned that Iran is targeting British military sites, stating the suspected plot against RAF Fairford last month is "not unique."
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday the apparent plot was "almost certainly" directed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, marking a major shift toward harder military targets this year.
- Beyond traditional targets, Tehran is intensifying attacks including arson and sabotage on Jewish sites, McCallum said, as MI5 notes Iranian operatives "principally using a modus operandi of hiring criminals."
- Scores of residents were evacuated near RAF Fairford on Sept. 27 as police found three vans containing gasoline; the incident prompted the United States to withdraw bombers from the base.
- McCallum argued Britain faces a "new era of national security," noting MI5 established a Threat Assessment Center to counter AI-enabled risks including cyberattacks and potential bioweapons.
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MI5 chief says Iran targeting military sites, suspected plot at RAF Fairford 'not unique'
Ken McCallum, who leads the UK's domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country's Islamic authorities
The United Kingdom is facing new threats from Iran and Russia that are intensifying their hostile activities and aiming at new targets as military sites: this warning launched today...
The head of the British internal intelligence service warned that the Iranian conspiracy against a military base in Gloucestershire is part of a broader hybrid war pattern.In this situation, the UK government applied sanctions to two citizens of the Persian country and summoned the Tehran ambassador.
(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = Ken McCallum, Director General of the UK's domestic intelligence agency MI5, said on the 13th (local time) regarding the Fairford Air Base incident that 'unusual...
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