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Iranian officials ‘ask Taliban for leaked kill list’ to ‘target British spies’

By staff5 August 2025No Comments3 Mins Read

The list, which was leaked by the military in 2022, contains the names of MI6 spies and British special forces personnel – as well as thousands of Afghans who applied for asylum in the UK

15:32, 05 Aug 2025Updated 17:05, 05 Aug 2025

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, also known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are said to have asked for access to the leaked list(Image: NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Iran has reportedly asked the Taliban for the leaked “kill list” that names MI6 spies, British special forces, and thousands of Afghans who applied for asylum in the UK.

A senior Iranian official said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had requested that the Taliban share the list, according to The Telegraph. He told the newspaper that there was a “special committee” assigned to find the list in Iran.

He added: “There have been discussions on cooperation between Tehran and Kabul on this issue as it can help both countries for negotiations with the West.” It comes after NATO scrambled warplanes as Russia shoots down West’s F-16 fighter jet in Ukraine onslaught.

The list, which was accidentally leaked by the British military, named thousands of Afghans. About 24,000 of those affected by the breach have either been brought to the UK or will be in the future, The Times reported last month.

The data breach occurred when an official emailed the list outside of the government team processing relocation applications. The document contained names, contact details, and family information, as well as email addresses belonging to UK government officials.

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Defence secretary John Healey said the leak “should never have happened”

More than 100 British officials’ details were leaked alongside Afghan nationals, including those of spies, and serving and former members of the special forces.

The Ministry of Defence told the Mirror on Monday: “It’s a longstanding policy of successive governments to not comment on intelligence matters but this once again underlines how serious the original data breach was and why the previous government have serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen.”

The police ultimately decided that no investigation was needed, and the BBC confirmed that the official responsible is no longer in the post he occupied at the time of the leak.

Defence secretary John Healey said in a statement last month that the “serious data incident should never have happened”. He said: “It may have occurred three years ago under the previous government… But to all those whose information was compromised, I offer a sincere apology today on behalf of the British government. And I trust the Shadow Defence Secretary – as a former Defence Minister – will join me in this.”

A Taliban official told The Telegraph that the group had obtained the list in 2022. He claimed that the media reports published in England made it clear “how significant this leak was”, and said that the order is to “arrest as many individuals as possible to use them as a tool of diplomatic pressure against England”.

An MoD spokesperson said: “We take the safety of our personnel very seriously and personnel, particularly those in sensitive positions, always have appropriate measures in place to protect their security. The independent Rimmer Review concluded that it is highly unlikely that merely being on the spreadsheet means an individual is more likely to be targeted, and this is the basis on which the court lifted its super injunction.”

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