Overview

• Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Iranian espionage is occurring at a significant level and that weekly cyber attacks have intensified since US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
• MI5 Director General Ken McCallum highlighted the regime’s use of criminal proxies to carry out terror operations and surveillance within the UK.
• Security minister Dan Jarvis told Parliament that UK agencies have disrupted more than 20 Tehran-backed plots since 2022, including assassination and abduction schemes.
• Intelligence assessments point to potential sleeper cells and infiltration of dissident diaspora groups as channels for attacks on officials, Jewish targets and military sites.
• Experts warn that Britain’s critical national infrastructure remains exposed to cyber assaults as Iranian proxies expand their hybrid warfare tactics.