UK in 'contest with adversaries who have massive scale', MI5 boss warns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% :Chinese authorities are "trying to re-write the rulebook, to buy the league, to recruit our coaching staff to work for them", while Iran "will only let people support one team and is prepared to use violence against those who don't toe the line.
49% : ""We're alive to the risk of these teams loaning players to each other, amplifying their strengths", he added as he highlighted Iran providing support to Russia by supplying drones "inflicting misery in Ukraine".
37% : He said Iran "projects threat to the UK directly, through its aggressive intelligence services.
34% : In a speech from the security agency's Thames House headquarters in London on Wednesday, Mr McCallum set out in stark language the dangers faced from Russia and China, as well as Iran, describing how the UK is in a contest with "adversaries who have massive scale and are not squeamish about the tactics they deploy."
31% : Iran has "ambitions" to kidnap or kill Britons it sees as "enemies of the regime", the boss of MI5 said as he warned of the "very real" threats posed by hostile states.

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