The UK' Home Secretary Suella Braverman believes that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is the biggest threat to Britain's national security, according to a report by The Sunday Times.
Braverman has expressed concern about intelligence reports claiming that Iranian spies are attempting to recruit members of organised crime gangs to target Iranian dissidents living in the UK.
“The Iranian threat is the one that worries [the UK] the most,” a source close to the home secretary told The Sunday Times. “It’s a big issue because they are getting much more aggressive and their appetite is increasing … They are very defensive to anyone challenging their regime”, the source added.
According to reports by the UK’s domestic counterintelligence and security agency MI5, the Iranian government was behind ten murder and kidnap plots in the UK since January alone. The Metropolitan Police said in February that it had risen to fifteen.
The IRGC has played a key role in crushing protests that arose in Iran after the death in custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman who was arrested by the "morality police" for not properly wearing a hijab.
