{"id":644595,"date":"2026-07-31T21:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644595"},"modified":"2026-07-31T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T21:37:29","slug":"mi5-directors-who-plotted-irgc-terror-ban-exposed-in-leaked-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644595","title":{"rendered":"MI5 directors who plotted IRGC \u2018terror\u2019 ban exposed in leaked emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government\u2019s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK\u2019s adoption of the draconian National Security Act. The correspondence reviewed here offers extraordinary insight into how the MI5 influences Downing Street, and uses its control to manipulate public perceptions of dubious or non-existent threats. On July 13, the government of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer officially listed [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2026\/07\/31\/mi5-plotters-irgc-ban-exposed\/\">MI5 directors who plotted IRGC \u2018terror\u2019 ban exposed in leaked emails<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2026\/07\/31\/mi5-plotters-irgc-ban-exposed\/\">MI5 directors who plotted IRGC \u2018terror\u2019 ban exposed in leaked emails<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/\">The Grayzone<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government\u2019s move to label the IRGC a terrorist entity as well as the UK\u2019s adoption of the draconian National Security Act. The correspondence reviewed here offers extraordinary insight into how the MI5 influences Downing Street, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=644595\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MI5 directors who plotted IRGC \u2018terror\u2019 ban exposed in leaked emails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}