(National-UAE) Iran’s malign influence in the UK poses a “multidimensional threat to British society” with the government being urged to take urgent action to counter it, an influential think tank has stated.
The paper, which was written before Iran’s missile attack on Israel, argued that Tehran had spent decades “curating a politico-religious infrastructure in Britain” that centred on Iran’s “UK nerve centre,” which the report named as the Islamic Centre of England Ltd (ICEL) in Maida Vale, west London.
Policy Exchange, which helps shape some government policy, also called on the security agency MI5 to take more action to prevent the Iranian regime from infiltrating the population.
