Britain’s security minister has refused to definitively state whether a branch of Iran’s armed forces will be proscribed after increasing concerns over the regime’s activity in the UK.
Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Tom Tugendhat declined to directly answer questions from several MPs on whether the UK will make the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) illegal.
However, Tugendhat did state that the government is taking dangers posed by the IRGC “seriously,” and said the UK’s response to the “vile” threat from Iran has increased over recent months.
His comments came following reports that one of Iran’s main UK outposts promoted sheikhs calling for the downfall of Western democracies and the “compassionate” killing of gay people….