UK to list Iran’s IRGC as ‘terror’ threat
- London debuts new powers targeting state proxies after accusing Iranian military organisation of engineering anti-Semitic attacks.
- The British government is pressing to use new powers allowing it to criminalise state proxies in order to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a threat to national security.
- In a statement issued on Monday, the government announced that it was submitting draft regulations to the UK Parliament that would ban support for the IRGC.
Confirmed
- London debuts new powers targeting state proxies after accusing Iranian military organisation of engineering anti-Semitic attacks.
- The British government is pressing to use new powers allowing it to criminalise state proxies in order to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a threat to national security.
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- In a statement issued on Monday, the government announced that it was submitting draft regulations to the UK Parliament that would ban support for the IRGC.
Sources: Al Jazeera, Jpost