Iran’s revolutionary guards are hunting British spies using a leaked Ministry of Defence list provided by the Taliban, The Telegraph has learnt.

For the short term, Tehran will prefer quiet security and intelligence cooperation with the Taliban rather than overt recognition.

Iran is hunting down British spies included in the ‘kill list’ leaked in a Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breach that was accessed by the Taliban, a report has claimed.

So what? They are being sent back. Iran deported 750,000 Afghans last month, justifying the move on economic and security grounds. Aid groups are struggling to respond to the expulsion, one of the largest in history, and those affected are returning to a place that many of them have never set foot in, having been born overseas.

In the four years since the Taliban took control of Kabul, millions of Afghans who initially fled have now been expelled from Iran and Pakistan.