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In the House of Lords this week, Conservative Lords accused the UK Government of failing “to hold the IRGC to account for its destabilising activities”, and called on the Home Office to “fully proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)”.
CFI Honorary President Lord Polak asked the Minister: “Her Majesty’s Government rightly proscribed Hezbollah. Hezbollah was a creation of the IRGC, so can I ask my noble friend to press his colleagues at the Home Office to fully proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?”
Joining the call, Lord Shinkwin emphasised that “British citizens have died as a result of numerous actions of terrorism by the IRGC”, and asked the Minister when the UK will proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation.
In response to Lord Polak, Minister Lord Sharpe of Edrom said: “We have been clear about our concerns about the IRGC’s continued destabilising activity throughout the region. It is for this reason that the IRGC is sanctioned in its entirety by the UK”.
He added: “The list of proscribed organisations is kept under constant review, but we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription”.
