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Spy-accused former soldier Daniel Khalife says he had to “walk quite a while” before he could find any signal to make a 30-minute call to an Iranian agent while posted at a US army base, a court has heard. Khalife though claims what he told the agent over three calls was "false". The three calls “rekindled” Iran’s interest in Khalife as an intelligence asset, Woolwich Crown Court was told. Khalife, who has pleaded guilty to escaping from prison, is accused of collecting secret information and passing it to agents of the Middle Eastern country while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals. The 23-year-old was posted to Fort Cavazos (then called Fort Hood) in Texas between February and April 2021, where he took part in a joint exercise, his trial heard. He told his Iranian contacts he was at the base, but denied providing them any “specific details” or useful information about what he was doing there. “The narratives that I told in those phone calls were false,” Khalife told ...