[Sunday Herald-UK/Persian Journal] Neil Mackay - Last week, Cpl. Daniel James, a British soldier of Iranian extraction, was charged under the Official Secrets Act with passing secrets to the enemy. He was a trusted aide and interpreter for Lt.-Gen. David Richards, head of NATO forces in Afghanistan. If the allegations are true, Iranian intelligence has penetrated the very heart of the British military. In addition, Iranian intelligence has run a relentless covert war against dissident Iranians in Western Europe and America for over two decades. Clare Lopez, a former high-ranking CIA officer, says: "The Iranian regime deploys its intelligence agents and assets in a very sophisticated campaign to infiltrate and influence Western academia, media, non-governmental organizations, and policy-making structures." Lopez says that "Iranian intelligence agents have been implicated in assassinations, bombings, and terrorist attacks around the world since the 1979 Iranian revolution." According to Lopez, as well as sources in British intelligence, the pace of Iranian espionage has increased dramatically since Ahmadinejad became Iran's president in 2005.
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