Sir Richard Dearlove
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Mike, it's a real pleasure to be with you, and I'm delighted to contribute to your podcast, as you have to mine.
Well, I certainly give credence to that sort of intelligence.
But I would say that
The IRGC who would probably be driving this, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is essentially the Muller's intelligence and the sort of overseas arm, the Quds Force, will be behind such activity.
But I think that what I would say is that their choice of targets if they do this would be
When I say careful, what I mean by that is they would be very specific in who and what they go after.
So, if you look at Iranian terrorist activity historically, it's either been aimed at the diaspora, the opposition, or specifically American targets.
I think they would be reluctant to go after specifically European targets.
in a manner like ISIS, because this is a state-driven terrorism.
It's not the sort of anarchic terrorism of ISIS.
So you have to make a distinction in terms of what we're actually talking about.
But it would be lethal, it would be organized, and it would be pretty professional.
Yeah I think the activity in the UK has been inspired through extremist Shia groups in certain mosques and I think the evidence points to attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets but
The fact is that what we're talking about is organized terrorism, not lone wolf terrorism.
And I think if the intelligence is good, it's easier to counter state-driven terrorism if you have a certain...
penetration or a certain level of information.
So, I think what we've been looking at in the UK, the security service has mentioned the numbers.
Obviously, it's not being specific about the targets or the plots, but it's pretty clear that MI5, which is our equivalent of the Bureau,
The FBI have been reasonably, well, they've been efficient at taking down this sort of potential activity in the UK.
And of course, there's been this dispute in the UK about designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization, which I'm not sure exactly where the situation is now.
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