May 20, 2025 - Craig Murray

MI5 Take Us For Fools

May 20, 2025 in Uncategorized by craig | View Comments

Imagine my hilarity when the front page headline new “Iranian plot”, trailed by MI5 as involving weapons stores, attacks on the Israeli Embassy and on Whitehall, turned out to be yet another faked “surveillance operation” against Iran International, the “media company” that is dodgier than Al Capone’s accountant.

The BBC still made it the second item on Saturday’s main news, as “Iranian Terror Plot discovered”. Three men have been charged and remanded on bail before a hearing at the Old Bailey on 6 JUne.

This is another exercise of the UK’s draconian new legislation, the openly fascist National Security Act 2023, where it is an offence to gather information, whether classified or not, as “Engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service”.

THis is an incredibly low bar – prosecutors don’t have to prove there is any actual contact with a hostile power. So if you take a photo of Downing Street, as many tourists do, that can be an offence as it could be “useful” to non-existent “Iranian terrorists” or others. We already have one person in jail for taking photos of Iran International despite absolutely zero evidence that he had ever had any kind of contact with Iran.

One man Mostafa Sepahvand, is also charged with “open source research” with a view to committing violence. Again the bar is incredibly low – no evidence of actual plans to commit violence are very low.

Personally, I have difficulty with imprisoning people before they commit a crime on the basis that they might be going to. This kind of prevention certainly works, in a sense. If you locked up the entire population, for example, there would undoubtedly be no crime committed, except for criems committed in prison. But I find charges of thinking about a terrorist attack, without any evidence of ever having communicated such a thought to anybody, a large number of steps too far.

Please read my last article which went into MI5’s Iran International scam in depth. An “Iranian terrorism in the UK” narrative is being created to justify UK involvement in a US/Israeli attack on Iran. I did not expect MI5 immediately to pull the same scam again.

On the theme of articles immediately being vindicated, a number of people doubted my story from a Foreign Office source a month ago that al Jolani would recognise Israel next year in return for the lifting of sanctions. Three weeks later Trump announced the lifting of sanctions and met with al-Jolani. I believe this blog still has a truly useful role to play in explaining what is happening behind the scenes, what the mainstream media does not tell you.

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