Russia and Iran Are Ramping Up Threats to UK, Spy Chief Warns
- MI5 Director-General Ken McCallum gives rare speech in London
- Says Islamist groups trying to capitalize on regional conflict
In the last month, more than a third of the MI5’s highest priority investigations were connected to overseas terror groups.
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Threats to the UK from Russia and Iran and the danger posed by the Islamic State group have increased in recent months, according to the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency.
Ken McCallum, the director-general of MI5, said the security service faces “stretched” resources as it grapples with the domestic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine, the conflict between Israel, Iran and its proxies in the Middle East as well as Islamist terror groups seeking to capitalize on the turmoil.