Government bans Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been labelled a threat to national security, with those carrying out acts of sabotage on their behalf facing life imprisonment, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said.The move is designed to tackle Iranian-backed groups recruiting criminals for acts targeting the Jewish community.The Government is laying draft regulations before Parliament to designate (as a threat to national security) the IRGC along with two other groups – the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right, and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Volunteer Corps.It comes after a series of arson attacks at Jewish sites in London earlier this year, as well as a double stabbing in Golders Green.Islamic Movemen