CFI has “strongly endorsed” the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee’s call on the UK Government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its newly published report into UK policy on Iran.
The Committee report “reinforces the UK’s long-overdue need for a strategic rethink in our approach to Iran” and “growing hopes for shared regional prosperity will be in jeopardy for as long as Iran goes unchecked”, assert CFI’s Parliamentary Chairmen, Rt. Hon. Stephen Crabb MP (Commons) and Rt. Hon. The Lord Pickles (Lords) and CFI Honorary President Lord Polak CBE.
The report, “No prosperity without justice: the UK’s relationship with Iran”, is published today after the Committee heard written and oral evidence from a range of organisations, including CFI.
In addition to its call for proscription of the IRGC as a terror organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000, the Committee calls on the UK Government to foster a long-term, international response that addresses Iran’s wider destabilising activities and for the UK to work towards a replacement for the JCPOA nuclear deal. The report also condemns Iran’s practice of ‘State Hostage Taking’, following its arrest of several British dual nationals on spurious grounds.
The full statement:
“CFI strongly endorses the findings and recommendations of the Foreign Affairs Committee’s report on Iran. The timely report will make an important contribution to the policy debate and reinforces the UK’s long-overdue need for a strategic rethink in our approach to Iran. The IRGC has been front and centre of Iran’s malign regional activities and we join the Foreign Affairs Committee by reiterating our call for the IRGC to be proscribed by Her Majesty’s Government as a matter of urgency. The growing hopes for shared regional prosperity will be in jeopardy for as long as Iran goes unchecked – it is time for a clear-sighted assessment of this reality”. CFI Parliamentary Chairmen Rt. Hon. Stephen Crabb MP (Commons) and Rt. Hon. The Lord Pickles (Lords), and CFI Honorary President Lord Polak CBE
