Former head of UK's MI6 says Iran has 'upper hand' in war

Former head of UK's MI6 says Iran has 'upper hand' in war The former chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service has said Iran has the upper hand in its war with Israel and the US . “The reality is the US underestimated the task and I think as of about two weeks ago lost the initiative to Iran,” Sir Alex Younger, who ran the UK ’s Secret Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2020, told the Economist in a podcast interview. “In practice, the Iranian regime has been more resilient than I think anyone would have expected,” Younger said.