# MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI

https://mins.news/en/video/98144

- BBC News, 2026-10-13 14:14 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBLnX8Iygs

> MI5 is devoting more resources to countering state threats than it did during the Cold War, its chief said, calling Russia the “aggressor number one”. Sir Ken McCallum said threats from foreign adversaries had quadrupled, leaving terrorism and state-threat operations at roughly equal scale.

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