{"id":77365,"date":"2026-08-14T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:45:30","slug":"active-and-pernicious-threat-the-iranian-intelligence-service-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77365\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Active and pernicious threat&#8217;: The Iranian intelligence service you&#8217;ve never heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Active and pernicious threat&#039;: The Iranian intelligence service you&#039;ve never heard of\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6oPmVu5up0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Active and pernicious threat&#8217;: The Iranian intelligence service you&#8217;ve never heard of<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn today\u2019s episode of Iran: The Latest, Sophia Yan speaks with Alicia Kearns MP, shadow minister for national security and former chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Fresh from a trip into the heart of the Pentagon, she explains how Iran&#8217;s regime is withstanding the pressure of the war thanks to financial and technological assistance from Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, the \u201cactive and pernicious\u201d Iranian intelligence service you\u2019ve never heard of, why Donald Trump is guilty of historical revisionism when it comes to Nato, and whether the US is ready for the growing risk of a three-theatre conflict involving China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<br \/>\nSophia Yan, co-host and senior foreign correspondent @sophia_yan<br \/>\nAlicia Kearns, MP and shadow minister for national security @aliciakearns<\/p>\n<p>Winner Best News and Analysis Podcast &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Podcast of the Year &#8211; Society of Editors News Podcasts Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs &#8211; British Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nThe Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Max Bower<br \/>\nVideo Producer: Peter Shevlin<br \/>\nResearcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh<br \/>\nStudio Operator: Andy Watson<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Venetia Rainey <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day&#8217;s biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk\/fromtheeditor<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/iran-war\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Active and pernicious threat&#8217;: The Iranian intelligence service you&#8217;ve never heard of On today\u2019s episode of Iran: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[56739,59579,342,760,3710,3825,395,47,38,63398,2302,15470,39,246,1736,200,486,14415,70,27,1745,337,48,9551,12097,43,12436,5360,8726],"class_list":["post-77365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-bab-el-mandeb","tag-battle-lines","tag-breaking-news-iran","tag-china","tag-defense-news","tag-foreign-policy","tag-geopolitics","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-iran-ballistic-missile","tag-iran-drone-strike","tag-iran-the-latest","tag-israel","tag-middle-east-war","tag-military-analysis","tag-netanyahu","tag-persian-gulf","tag-red-sea","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-telegraph-podcast","tag-the-telegraph","tag-trump","tag-trump-iran-strategy","tag-us-blockade","tag-us-military","tag-us-navy","tag-war-in-the-middle-east","tag-xi-jinping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117094892658542515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}