Iran recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimage in Middle East to spy on Jews: Report

Iran is recruiting British Muslims on pilgrimage tours to various Middle Eastern countries to spy on Jews and Jewish targets in the United Kingdom, a report in the DailyMail has claimed.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is said to be behind the recruitment process. The modus operandi involves the IRGC recruiters approaching Shiite Muslims visiting religious sites in the Middle East and asking them to gather classified or useful information about prominent Jews,synagogues and Iranian dissidents

The publication claimed that British Muslims visiting the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala in September last year were approached to spy for Iran.

“We do not know the scale of Iranian agents inside Europe and the UK, but all it takes is for one to slip through the net,” an unnamed source was quoted as saying.

The report added that some Iranians who come to study at British universities as international students on state scholarships also act as spies.

Quoting a British official, the report claimed that the Iranian regime also utilised British-based organised crime networks to carry out attacks on US soil.