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 The Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the Islamic Republic.
Iran is conducting a “shadow war” inside the United Kingdom that extends beyond sanctions violations and includes propaganda, financial networks, and digital disinformation campaigns aimed at dividing society, The Telegraph reported on Monday.
Iran uses its overseas missions to covertly surveil dissidents and fund influence operations via state-backed cultural initiatives, multiple former Iranian diplomats and embassy staff members told Iran International.
Iran and Russia are posing an “extraordinary” threat to the United Kingdom through plots involving espionage, sabotage, and intimidation, Britain’s independent adviser on state threats and terrorism told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
Iran is conducting increasingly hostile intelligence operations targeting Finland, the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) told public broadcaster Yle in comments published Friday.
Roozbeh Parsi, head of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), has stepped down following the conclusion of an internal investigation into his alleged links to an Iranian influence network.
The campaigns against advocates of Tehran interests outside Iran is not about stifling debate but ensuring a balanced one, with dissenting voices challenging those more aligned with the Islamic Republic.
The British government has not funded Iran's influence network in Western countries, the UK Foreign Office told Iran International, rejecting remarks by a Swedish-Iranian scholar who said his involvement in the scheme was backed by the UK government.
A Swedish lawmaker called for the dismissal of Rouzbeh Parsi from the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, following a media investigation linking him to a Tehran-directed influence network.
Roozbeh Parsi, director of the Swedish Institute for International Affairs’ Middle East program, has denied any cooperation with the Iranian government following a media investigation linking him to a Tehran-directed influence network.
The director of the Swedish Institute for International Policy has been linked to a Tehran-directed influence network, according to a Swedish TV investigation relying on emails provided by Iran International.
Saeed Khatibzadeh, a senior Iranian diplomat who helped mastermind Tehran's influence operations in the West, has been appointed head of the foreign ministry's think tank, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS).
A Pentagon aide previously linked by an Iran International investigation to a Tehran-led influence network has taken on a new role in the defense department which gives her reduced access to intelligence, according to a former Pentagon official.
Supporters of rival factions in Iran have taken to social media to make allegations of Israeli ‘infiltration’ and espionage against each other in the wake of Israel’s recent deadly operations.
The circus is back in town. A new Iranian president arrives at the United Nations as a smiling mask to an undeterred adversary of the United States and too many credulous media and policy elites in this country cheer on the pageant. This needs to stop.
Rob Malley, US special envoy for Iran, is under FBI investigation for mishandling classified information, though the State Department believes no serious misconduct occurred, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
An alleged representative of Iran's Supreme Leader in Germany has been deported, the local interior ministry said, as part of a crackdown on institutions linked to the Islamic Republic.
Iran is doing more than ever to influence American voters in the run-up to the November elections, a senior US intelligence official said on Friday, in the latest warning about potential foreign influence in US politics.
The White House regularly hosted Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Pentagon official with close ties to Iran, even after it was revealed that she had been at the heart of an Iranian influence network, advocating for Tehran and its agendas.
Iran was behind the anti-Israel protests on at least one Canadian university in an attempt to undermine Western support for Israel and fuel divisiveness on Canadian soil, sources combating digital disinformation told Iran International.
The Utah-based Baskerville Institute, has sparked controversy by hosting a secretive conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, attended by Iranian supporters of sanctioned terrorist Qasem Soleimani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The Iranian government has tried to hijack ongoing Gaza war protests in US universities, and actors close to Tehran have provoked and financially supported the protesters, the Director of US National Intelligence said on Tuesday, as she warned against Iran's influence efforts.