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IranJuly 7 2025, 11:57 am

UK Parliamentary Report on Iran Threat: Security Concerns Highlighted

The threat to the UK posed by covert Iran­ian influ­ence is the sub­ject of grow­ing atten­tion, as demon­strat­ed by a UK par­lia­men­tary report on the issue. On 7 July 2025, Iran Inter­na­tion­al report­ed that a new report set to be pub­lished warns Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British secu­ri­ty, with ongo­ing plots and cyber­at­tacks tar­get­ing the UK. The arti­cle begins:

A par­lia­men­tary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British secu­ri­ty, accord­ing to a forth­com­ing report from the UK Parliament’s Intel­li­gence and Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee. Iran con­tin­ues to pose a sig­nif­i­cant threat to the Unit­ed King­dom, with ongo­ing attempts to assas­si­nate dis­si­dents on British soil and exten­sive cyber attacks tar­get­ing UK com­pa­nies. Based on clas­si­fied intel­li­gence and two years of inves­ti­ga­tion, the study is expect­ed to place Iran along­side Chi­na and Rus­sia as one of the biggest state-based threats to the UK. The find­ings will also expose the per­sis­tent med­dling by the Islam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC), despite recent set­backs caused by Israeli assas­si­na­tions. The report, more than 100 pages in length, was com­piled through inter­views with Iran­ian experts at British intel­li­gence ser­vices and with access to sen­si­tive clas­si­fied documents.

Read more: https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507079848

Key Points

  • The UK par­lia­men­tary report on the Iran threat iden­ti­fies Iran as a major state-based secu­ri­ty risk, along­side Chi­na and Rus­sia.

  • Iran is accused of ongo­ing assas­si­na­tion plots against dis­si­dents and cyber­at­tacks tar­get­ing UK com­pa­nies and cit­i­zens.

  • The Islam­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Guard Corps (IRGC) is high­light­ed for its per­sis­tent covert oper­a­tions and influ­ence activ­i­ties in the UK.

  • The report is based on clas­si­fied intel­li­gence, inter­views, and a two-year inves­ti­ga­tion by the Intel­li­gence and Secu­ri­ty Com­mit­tee.

Iran’s Influence Operations in the UK: Networks, Ideology, and Government Countermeasures

Iran’s influ­ence oper­a­tions in the Unit­ed King­dom have evolved into a sophis­ti­cat­ed net­work that lever­ages ide­o­log­i­cal alliances, com­mu­ni­ty out­reach, and covert polit­i­cal activ­i­ties. Tehran-linked orga­ni­za­tions have embed­ded them­selves in British soci­ety through far-left part­ner­ships and advo­ca­cy cam­paignsannu­al pub­lic demon­stra­tions, and tar­get­ed mes­sag­ing in schools and pub­lic dis­course. Lead­er­ship fig­ures have open­ly sup­port­ed con­tro­ver­sial posi­tions such as the Rushdie fat­wa, rein­forc­ing the regime’s ide­o­log­i­cal reach.

The UK gov­ern­ment recent­ly respond­ed by launch­ing a For­eign Influ­ence Reg­is­tra­tion Scheme that places Iran on its high­est tier, com­pelling all polit­i­cal activ­i­ties linked to Iran­ian state actors and prox­ies to be reg­is­tered or face crim­i­nal penal­ties, there­by aim­ing to dis­rupt covert oper­a­tions and increase trans­paren­cy around for­eign influ­ence. These mea­sures reflect mount­ing con­cerns over the oper­a­tional and ide­o­log­i­cal threats posed by Iran’s embed­ded net­works, which exploit legal and social vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties to advance Tehran’s inter­ests across mul­ti­ple fronts, includ­ing through dig­i­tal dis­in­for­ma­tion and alliances with oth­er transna­tion­al movements.

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