{"id":308858,"date":"2025-05-17T06:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308858"},"modified":"2025-05-18T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:51:05","slug":"uk-intels-fake-terror-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308858","title":{"rendered":"UK Intel\u2019s Fake Terror Plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Craig Murray \u2013 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2025\/05\/14\/craig-murray-uk-intels-fake-terror-plots\/\">Scheer Post May 14, 2025<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Back in the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d days, the UK security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot in Manchester, taking entire front pages of newspapers. Gordon Brown as PM hyped it as a \u201cvery big terror plot\u201d. It was a total fabrication, nobody was convicted and it eventually emerged that the trumpeted \u201cbomb-making ingredient\u201d the police confiscated from kitchens was sugar \u2013 in normal quantities.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Ricin Plot in in 2003 was again kitchen obsessed, and the media that ran screaming headlines about the discovery of ricin did not bother to later report that the amounts the police announced they had discovered turned out to be the almost undetectable trace which might be found in any kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda was the purpose, all ramping up Islamophobia to justify the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. When the Manchester Arena attack eventually did happen, it turned out that MI5 had been the perpetrator\u2019s sponsor and he and his father had been ferried from Libya by the British armed forces. Sponsorship of terrorism abroad is always likely to result in blowback at home.<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda is now being ramped up again to promote the Islamophobia intended to drive public support in the UK for the Genocide in Gaza and a forthcoming attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>MI5 Head Ken McCallum is arguably the most prolific and sustained liar in the history of the UK public service. He has not yet generated the deaths with his lies that Alistair Campbell caused, but give McCallum time for his Goebbels-like repetition to pay off. McCallum has a much more compliant media landscape to work with than existed a quarter of a century before.<\/p>\n<p>I have to remind myself that my continued outrage at the destruction of millions of very real and ordinary people in the Middle East from 2003 onwards, to secure hydrocarbons for rich and evil men and based on total lies about Iraqi weapons, is something extremely vivid and fundamental to me, but the average university student was not even born at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The myth of a \u201cgood\u201d West continually self-propagates. The media distracts and obfuscates in a constant and prolonged process of attrition of the truth; it is tempting to believe that the Genocide in Gaza has awoken a public consciousness which may be a historic break of the system. But it is already becoming harder to access true news from Gaza. Fewer images are available as the murder of countless citizen journalists and the throttling of internet in Gaza takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>Social media suppression of the reach of pro-Palestinian accounts and massive boosting of Zionist accounts are reinforced by systematic state persecution of pro-Palestinian voices.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Israeli ministers openly proclaim their Genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, European ministers continue to deny it. I am reminded of Harold Pinter\u2019s great acceptance speech for his Nobel prize, speaking in particular of the lies and atrocities of the Iraq War:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is the reality of power. Power does not have to justify itself. Power does what it wants, and the rest of the world is expected to accept it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But there is another reality, one that is rarely reported. The reality of resistance. The reality of people who refuse to accept the lies, who refuse to be silenced. In every country where the United States has intervened, there have been people who fought back \u2013 not just with weapons, but with words, with ideas, with courage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">These voices are often ignored by the Western media, which prefers to focus on the narrative of American benevolence. But they exist, and they are growing. From Latin America to the Middle East, people are standing up to imperialism, to exploitation, to lies.<\/p>\n<p>We are still standing up, but the lies keep coming, the exploitation keeps coming and the murder keeps coming.<\/p>\n<p>Now let us return on to the arch-propagandist Ken McCallum and his latest invented plot. This is a biggie \u2013 the largest state-promoted terrorism scare for twenty years.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m no fan of the regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t for the life of me see how this would be in their interests. Whereas I can see how it would be in the interests of others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qgutYjEpKX\">https:\/\/t.co\/qgutYjEpKX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Sanders (@PulaRJS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PulaRJS\/status\/1920497947508150679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As usual, there is not any actual evidence. This straight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/07\/iranians-arrested-in-counter-terrorism-raids-allegedly-targeted-israeli-embassy\">propaganda piece<\/a> from <em>The Guardian<\/em> accidentally makes that plain:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-text.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter wp-image-308860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-text.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"196\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-text.webp 752w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-text-480x125.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 752px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Of course, the weapons the police are searching for may yet magically turn up under the bed. I recall the search of Charlie Rowley\u2019s house after the death of poor Dawn Sturgess. The police searched the home for five days, looking for a small vial of liquid, with no luck. Then it amazingly turned out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/jul\/24\/novichok-victim-ill-within-15-minutes-says-partner-charlie-rowley\">the perfume bottle<\/a> had been sitting in plain sight on the kitchen counter all along!<\/p>\n<p>That perfume bottle obviously had miraculous qualities and could materialise and dematerialise at will, because it had also sat undetected inside a regularly emptied charities\u2019 donation bin for over three months.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose an RPG may yet materialise under the settee in the current search; when the British police and security services are involved, the laws of physics are frequently suspended.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Ken McCallum\u2019s \u201cfive plots\u201d last year had not resulted in any convictions, or indeed evidence, and in fact the claim was modest for McCallum \u2014 who has claimed that MI5 had foiled \u201c20 plots\u201d since 2022. Even that was not his record.<\/p>\n<p>McCallum reminds me of the man walking around St. James\u2019 Park scattering rubber bands \u201cto keep the elephants away.\u201d When told there are no elephants, he stated \u201cSee, it works, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d McCallum has kept vast amounts of Iranian terrorism at bay in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n<p>But, unusually, in 2023 one of McCallum\u2019s fictional \u201cIranian plots\u201d did result in an actual conviction, and I would like you to look at this one as a window into the twisted psyche of the security services.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Saudi-Funded Iran International <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a crowded field, Iran International is probably the world\u2019s dodgiest media channel. A Saudi Arabian-funded niche Farsi language operation, it caters to those Iranians who support Israel, support the restoration of a shah and support Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, it is very niche.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this tiny media operation was set up with a Saudi investment of a quarter of a billion dollars. Yes, you did read that properly, $250 million. Just where all that money really went is an interesting question. There have been persistent rumours of money laundering and of ties to Eastern-European-organised crime.<\/p>\n<p>There was a brief period, after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, when the U.K. media would print disobliging things about the Saudis. In that short window, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/31\/concern-over-uk-based-iranian-tv-channels-links-to-saudi-arabia\">this article<\/a> appeared in <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-large wp-image-308861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-article-1024x840.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"840\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-article-1024x840.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-article-980x804.webp 980w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Guardian-article-480x394.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Iran International, perhaps unsurprisingly, specifically supports a Sunni Arab terrorist organisation operating within Iran: the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz \u2013 ASMLA. This is a Sunni ethno-nationalist group conducting armed struggle for the secession of certain Arab districts of southern Iran from the predominantly Persian and Shia state.<\/p>\n<p>ASMLA has exactly the same covert backers as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria: namely, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Israel and Western security services.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2018 ASMLA carried out an attack in Ahvaz which killed over 60 people (ISIS also claimed the attack, but the two organisations are linked). Iran International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/dec\/03\/ofcom-investigates-tv-station-over-interview-praising-attack-in-iran\">carried an<\/a> interview with an ASMLA spokesman which very definitely supported ASMLA, and where he insisted on ASMLA\u2019s right to armed resistance and specifically claimed responsibility for the attack as a victory.<\/p>\n<p>In an era where Western activists are routinely arrested for supporting \u201cterrorism\u201d if they oppose the Gaza genocide, you might imagine that this would be an offence by Iran International. But supporting Western- and Saudi-backed terrorists is not only tolerated, it is official British government policy, and in response to complaints the U.K.\u2019s Office of Communications (OFCOM) found that Iran International were entitled to interview the advocate of the right sort of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>So how does this relate to the single conviction from all of Ken McCallum\u2019s alleged terrorist plots?<\/p>\n<p>Somebody from Iran International has been convicted of glorifying terrorism, right?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be silly. Iran International is pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli and in December 2023 it opened a second HQ in Washington, D.C., with additional C.I.A. funding. Remember they are on the same side as HTS. Iran International are the \u201cvictims of terrorism\u201d here.<\/p>\n<p>The conviction under the Terrorism Act was for taking photographs of the Iran International HQ building in Chiswick.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2023 Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, a Chechen with Austrian citizenship, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/man-guilty-of-spying-on-iran-international-in-london-to-help-terror-plotters-jailed-13036150\">was sentenced<\/a> to three and a half years in jail for photographing Iran International HQ in Chiswick, which was deemed to be in preparation for a terrorism offense.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution case was specifically that Dovtaev was operating on behalf of the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>No Evidence of Link to Iran <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This is the important bit. No evidence of any kind was presented in court of connections between Dovtaev and Iran. There was nothing on his phone and nothing from surveillance. He had not spoken to any Iranians or mentioned Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution argued \u2014 and I kid you not \u2014 that Dovtaev was Chechen, which is in Russia, which is geopolitically allied to Iran, and therefore he was probably acting on behalf of Iran. That was it. It really, really was.<\/p>\n<p>This ultra circumstantial argument is a reach enough anyway, but ignores several individual factors.<\/p>\n<p>Dovtaev is a Sunni, therefore not aligned to Iran. He is definitely not one of those Chechens allied to Russia. His family arrived in Austria as refugees from the Chechen War of Independence and he is an anti-Russian Chechen nationalist and an Austrian citizen. He was actually wearing Chechen Independence gear when caught photographing the building.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution argument \u2014 that Dovtaev must be working for Iran because of Russia\u2019s links to Iran \u2014 is therefore complete and utter nonsense. But it fits the official anti-Iranian narrative we are being force-fed. And it was rammed down the throats of the jury.<\/p>\n<p>I might add that the evidence that Dovtaev was indeed casing the joint for some ulterior purpose was very strong, and I do not doubt it. But there was no evidence of any kind that it was for Iran, or for terrorism, as the prosecution alleged. The judgment is not published, which is why I do not link it.<\/p>\n<p>That is the one conviction for Iranian terrorism for all McCallum\u2019s false claims \u2014 and no connection at all to Iran was shown.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to the only other actual arrest \u2014 though not yet conviction, until this week \u2014 in all of McCallum\u2019s so-called Iranian terrorist plots. Two young Romanians were extradited from Bucharest to London for stabbing in the leg an employee of \u2026 you guessed it, Iran International.<\/p>\n<p>Nandito Badea, age 19, and George Stana, age 23, were arrested for stabbing in London the Iran International presenter Pouria Zerati. The assault was captured on CCTV.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Propaganda With a Purpose<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Now, you might remember that I said at the beginning that there are alleged links between the dodgy finances of Iran International and Eastern-European-organised crime? Well, the story reported from Bucharest is that the defendants admit to the stabbing but say it was a warning with regard to a business debt.<\/p>\n<p>Which, when you think about it, makes far more sense. The CCTV shows that the attackers could have killed the victim, but stabbed him in the leg instead. That is a gangland warning, not a state operation.<\/p>\n<p>The notion that Iran is hiring random teenage Romanians to slightly wound people is a nonsense. Furthermore, does not the \u201cbusiness dispute\u201d narrative also make infinitely more sense in the case of Dovtaev, who had no links to Iran?<\/p>\n<p>The gangster scenario would fully explain why he would keep his lips firmly sealed about who really hired him and what he was doing, even at the cost of a harsher \u201cterrorism\u201d sentence.<\/p>\n<p>So that is all the concrete evidence, or lack of it, in existence about McCallum\u2019s multiple Iranian terrorist plots. This is now, of course, augmented by this new screamed narrative about a planned Iranian attack on the Israeli embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>As the Gaza genocide proceeds, you could write a long essay about the ethics of attacking an Israeli embassy (and Israel has not shown restraint in attacking other nations\u2019 diplomatic premises, but I shall let that pass as not relevant to the current case).<\/p>\n<p>You have to ask, \u201ccui bono?\u201d Iran has shown tremendous restraint in avoiding being dragged into a wide war over Gaza in the face of continued attacks, and is in the midst of a tense negotiating process over its nuclear programme. The idea that, at this moment, it would attack the Israeli embassy in London is crazed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the narrative very strongly serves the U.K. interest, as support for the genocide in Gaza dwindles further, especially among Labour Party supporters. And of course such an attack, or even the allegation of a planned attack, also boosts the perpetual Israeli narrative of victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>MI5\u2019s arrangement of this fake plot now is totally predictable; in fact I have been predicting false-flag operations since the genocide started.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that there is probably an agent provocateur operation at the base of this, where some poor young men have been entrapped into agreeing with wild statements or a fantasy plan. Alternatively, as usual it will prove to be a complete propaganda invention to influence public opinion at a key moment.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the United States has these last few days currently concentrated four B-52 and six B-2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/satellite-image-shows-us-bombers-massing-iran-tensions-rise-2069988\">bombers on Diego Garcia<\/a>. This is an extremely rare concentration and indicates preparedness for a major operation; Iran is the most likely target.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of force is very much greater than anything deployed against Yemen to date. This anti-Iranian propaganda is not being ramped up right now to no purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The above article was first posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/archives\/2025\/05\/mi5s-fake-terror-plots\/\">Craig Murray\u2019s own website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK intelligence has a history of fabricating terror plots, which were used to pave the way for military intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. former British diplomat Craig Murray explains how the focus has now shifted to Iran <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":308859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308863,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308858\/revisions\/308863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}