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The widening conflicts in the Middle East raise the risk of increased Iranian state aggression in the U.K.,
McCallum said, highlighting The first 20 years of my career here were crammed full of terrorist threats,
It will be clear to you that MI5 has one hell of a job on its hands,
McCallum told journalists at the UK’s counterterrorism command centre in London The GRU in particular is on a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets: we’ve seen arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness,
he said, declining to give further details Extreme right-wing terrorism in particular skews heavily towards young people, driven by propaganda that shows a canny understanding of online culture,
Sadly, 13% of all those being investigated by MI5 for involvement in UK terrorism are under 18.
Speaking at the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in west London on Tuesday, he said Although police ... The overarching UK terrorist threat level remains at substantial - an attack is likely - and is kept under constant review.
If you take money from Iran, Russia or any other state to carry out illegal acts in the UK, you will bring the full weight of the national security apparatus down on you. It’s a choice you’ll regret.”
Delivering a stark warning to anyone considering working for Russia, Mr McCallum said The ripples from conflict in that region will not necessarily arrive at our shores in a straightforward fashion,
he said, but the UK terror threat remained unchanged at “substantial”, the third level on a five-point scale Over the last month, more than a third of our top-priority investigations have had some form of connection, of varying strengths, to organised overseas terrorist groups,
he said as he gave a threat update Some of those plotters were trying to get hold of firearms and explosives, in the final days of planning mass murder."