The Iranian refugees spying on Britain Tehran is blackmailing its citizens

David Rose is UnHerd‘s Investigations Editor and Ali Hamedani is a writer and broadcaster, formerly with the BBC World Service.

 Over the past three years, at least 20 Iranian terrorist plots have been detected on British soil. Some have involved members of organised criminal gangs, and targeted both prominent Jews and Iranian opposition journalists. All these plots depend on networks of spies, who conduct surveillance on behalf of the regime.

 Until now, little has been known about how or where these agents are recruited. But UnHerd can now reveal an extraordinary security loophole — one increasingly exploited by the Iranian state. Its London embassy is routinely enabling Iranian refugees to break UK immigration rules and secretly visit their homeland. These operations are so routine, that the embassy even has a form it issues to refugees wishing to illicitly return to Iran.

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