The claim of the head of MI5 about the increase in threats from Iran, Russia and China
The head of Britain’s spy service, claiming that his coury faces greater threats from Russia, Iran and China, said that the agency has been forced to refocus on couering terrorism.
According to Isna, “Ken McCallum”, the head of the British spy service, known as MI5, claimed in an ierview that this organization must make “unpleasa choices” because it is facing further aggression from Russia, China and Iran.
He further poied out that MI5 has been forced to focus on “ai-terrorism” activities due to the increasing threat from Russia and other hostile couries.
McCallum also emphasized that “the agency has to look at its limited resources and make some tough choices.” We’ve had to make some of those uncomfortable choices in rece years. We need to reduce some of our couer-terrorism capacity to be ready to deal with these somewhat larger and more complex threats, in some cases from governmes.
He coinued: We will examine how much of our limited capacity we can spend to face governme activities from Russia, Iran or China, how much we should spend to deal with various forms of terrorism, but we also need to see how much of our capacity we can spend We have to see how much we can spend on things that we think may be a threat tomorrow morning.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the head of MI5 emphasized: We need to invest in new technology and new skills. So, you always have some version of these unpleasa choices ahead of you.
McCallum has recely claimed that Russia plans to create “chaos” on the streets of Britain, and that Iranian-backed plots that carry deadly threats to the British public are growing at an unprecedeed pace and scale.
The head of Britain’s spy service claimed in a speech in October that his coury’s support for Ukraine had made London a target for Russian ages. He also warned that ISIS and a resurge Al-Qaeda would once again target Europe.
He said at the time that the number of state threat investigations carried out by MI5 had risen by “48 per ce” in the past year, with 13 per ce of people being investigated by the security service for involveme in terrorism in the UK. are under 18 years old.
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