{"id":248878,"date":"2025-05-20T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/mi5-take-us-for-fools\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:59:50","slug":"mi5-take-us-for-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=248878","title":{"rendered":"MI5 Take Us For Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my hilarity when the front page headline new \u201cIranian plot\u201d, trailed by MI5 as involving weapons stores, attacks on the Israeli Embassy and on Whitehall, turned out to be yet another faked \u201csurveillance operation\u201d against Iran International, the \u201cmedia company\u201d that is dodgier than Al Capone\u2019s accountant.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC still made it the second item on Saturday\u2019s main news, as \u201cIranian Terror Plot discovered\u201d. Three men have been charged and remanded on bail before a hearing at the Old Bailey on 6 JUne.<\/p>\n<p>This is another exercise of the UK\u2019s draconian new legislation, the openly fascist National Security Act 2023, where it is an offence to gather information, whether classified or not, as \u201cEngaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>THis is an incredibly low bar \u2013 prosecutors don\u2019t 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 \u201cuseful\u201d to non-existent \u201cIranian terrorists\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>One man Mostafa Sepahvand, is also charged with \u201copen source research\u201d with a view to committing violence. Again the bar is incredibly low \u2013 no evidence of actual plans to commit violence are very low.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Please read my <strong>last article<\/strong> which went into MI5\u2019s Iran International scam in depth. An \u201cIranian terrorism in the UK\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/skynews-trump-syria-salman_6915865-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\"\/><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>My reporting and advocacy work has no source of finance at all other than your contributions to keep us going. We get nothing from any state nor any billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody is welcome to republish and reuse, including in translation.<\/p>\n<p>Because some people wish an alternative to PayPal, I have set up new methods of payment including a <a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/CraigMurray\">Patreon account<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/craigmurrayorg.substack.com\/\">Substack account<\/a> if you wish to subscribe that way. The content will be the same as you get on this blog. 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