UK Urged to Proscribe IRGC Over Growing Threats

A new report by the Henry Jackson Society warns that the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) poses a growing threat to UK national security and calls for the British government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation formally.
The report, The Long Arm of Tehran: Why the UK Should Ban the IRGC, outlines how the IRGC has been linked to assassination plots, surveillance operations, and efforts to intimidate dissidents on British soil. According to MI5, at least 20 Iran-backed plots have been uncovered in the UK since January 2022, including an attempt to assassinate two British-Iranian journalists last year
In its policy recommendations, the report argues that proscribing the IRGC under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 would allow authorities to criminalize membership, funding, and expressions of support for the organization. The authors suggest that such a move would enable greater policing of IRGC-linked individuals in the UK and allow for the deportation or arrest of any individual even remotely linked to the IRGC.