More than 90 parliamentarians including 60 Conservative MPs and Lords have written to Prime Minister Liz Truss raising concerns over the violent crackdown on protests in Iran following the tragic killing of Mahsa Amini and have called on the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror organisation.
The letter, sent by the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group, commended the UK Government’s decision to sanction Iran’s ‘morality police’ and other security figures, but seeks further assurances of UK Government policy towards Iran and the IRGC. Signatories include CFI Parliamentary Chairmen Rt. Hon. Stephen Crabb MP and Rt. Hon. The Lord Pickles, and CFI Honorary President Lord Polak CBE.
The parliamentarians state that it is time “for the UK and its allies to support Iran’s courageous protestors and take a stand against the regime and its terrorist enforcers, the IRGC”. They argue that it was right for the Government to proscribe Hamas and Hezbollah but the terror organisation’s sponsor the IRGC “still operates with impunity”.
The letter calls for the Prime Minister to proscribe the IRGC in response to its “campaign of terror” both abroad and its “draconian repression” against political opposition and women at home.
See below for the letter and full list of signatories.
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