‘My dad wouldn’t have been kidnapped if the IRGC were proscribed as terrorists sooner’

Anoosheh Ashoori, a former Iranian prisoner, who septn five years in the notorious Evin jail (Picture: Anoosheh Ashoori/PA Wire) A woman whose dad was held hostage by the IRGC for five years has said if the government had proscribed the group years ago it would have saved ‘countless lives’. Elika Ashoori’s dad Anoosheh, a British-Iranian civil engineer, was suddenly detained after travelling to visit his mum in August 2017. He was freed in March 2022 after five years in the notorious Evin jail alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after a five-year fight. But it was only yesterday the government confirmed they were proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), despite there being years of ‘threats to life and intimidation on UK soil’. Elika told Metro: ‘As we battled for my dad’s