The former UK intelligence chief says Iran Has the upper hand. US Has ‘Lost Initiative to Iran’ MiddleEastEye reports Former head of UK’s MI6 says Iran has ‘upper hand’ in war with US and Israel “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...