The UK’s counter-extremism commissioner has called on the government to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, as concerns grow about Tehran’s activities in Britain.
Robin Simcox said on Thursday that such a move would be in “the national interest” and that the group — the most powerful wing of Iran’s state security apparatus — had operated “like a terrorist organisation ever since its inception”.
UK ministers are at odds over whether to make the change amid growing concerns over the threat posed by the force to UK national security. The US designated the IRGC a terrorist organisation in 2019, during the Trump administration.
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