Iran 'is hunting Brit spies using leaked list to be bargaining chips'

Iran is plotting with the Taliban to hunt down British agents using a leaked database that exposed details of MI6 spies and UK Special Forces.

Officials from Iran's Revolutionary Guards flew to Kabul last week to ask Afghanistan's warlords for 'access' to the bombshell list at the centre of a two-year super-injunction drama in the UK.

Earlier this month it was reported that Iran had begun efforts to get their hands on the highly sensitive list 'so they can hunt down MI6 spies'.

But now it is understood that four IRGC officials - who are said to have travelled to Afghanistan without involving Tehran's civilian government - intend to capture British spies and use them as 'bargaining chips' in negotiations with the West over the nation's controversial nuclear programme, The Telegraph reported.

In return, the Taliban wish to be formally recognised by Iran as the official rulers of Afghanistan.