The claim of the head of MI5 about the increase in threats from Iran, Russia and China

According to Isna, “Ken McCallum”, the head of the British spy service, known as MI5, claimed in an interview that this organization must make “unpleasant choices” because it is facing further aggression from Russia, China and Iran.

He further pointed out that MI5 has been forced to focus on “anti-terrorism” activities due to the increasing threat from Russia and other hostile countries.

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 recent years. We need to reduce some of our counter-terrorism capacity to be ready to deal with these somewhat larger and more complex threats, in some cases from governments.

He continued: We will examine how much of our limited capacity we can spend to face government 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 unpleasant choices ahead of you.

McCallum has recently 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 unprecedented pace and scale.

The head of Britain’s spy service claimed in a speech in October that his country’s support for Ukraine had made London a target for Russian agents. He also warned that ISIS and a resurgent 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 cent” in the past year, with 13 per cent of people being investigated by the security service for involvement in terrorism in the UK. are under 18 years old.

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