Posted on 01/02/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
Britain is set to officially declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group after 10 plots to kidnap or murder people in the UK last year, The Telegraph reported on Monday.
Tom Tugendhat, the British security minister, and Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, both support the move, which is expected to be announced within weeks, the report said.
Officials have been building the case against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), with the security services understood to have shared intelligence.
Proscribing the group means it would become a criminal offense to belong to the IRGC, attend its meetings, carry its logo in public or encourage support of its activities.
It would put the body on a similar legal footing as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), noted The Telegraph.
Similar steps have been taken by the US and Canada, two of the UK’s partners in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, which also includes Australia and New Zealand.