يحاول ذهب - حر
CAN WE NOW OUTLAW IRAN'S TERROR FORCE IN UK?
April 16, 2024
|Daily Express
MOUNTING pressure is being put on Rishi Sunak to ban Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
Ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has blasted the failure to outlaw them so far as "absurd".
And he has joined other senior Conservatives calling on the PM to do so after Iran's missile and drone barrage over Israeli airspace, which the UK and other allies helped to thwart.
Influence
Sir Iain said: "The Government should have already proscribed IRGC. The USA have asked us to do it.
"The excuses the Government uses are, firstly, that if the UK proscribes the IRGC it will lose influence. That's absurd as we clearly have no influence." He urged Mr Sunak to "please, please" now consider banning the IRGC and to "do it in a way that will make sure they can no longer foment extremism here in the United Kingdom as well".
Sir Iain, below, added: "All roads lead back to Tehran when it comes to the terrible violence and wars that take place in the Middle East.
"And every country, not just Israel, other Arab countries fear what Tehran is doing in their countries as well.
"We know they are committing murder at home, they have executed thousands of protesters while this war has been taking place."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a powerful force within Iran and also controls the "axis of resistance" against Israel across the region.
Proscribing the organisation means that it would join an 80-strong list of banned groups that includes Islamist extremists and far-right terrorists.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that it was time to "put the UK's national security first" by banning the IRGC.
هذه القصة من طبعة April 16, 2024 من Daily Express.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
المزيد من القصص من Daily Express
Daily Express
Funeral directors jailed over decomposing bodies
TWO funeral directors who stored bodies in unrefrigerated conditions have been jailed for four years each.
2 mins
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
A VERY UNBRITISH SCANDAL THAT COULD SMEAR THE HEART OF GOVERNMENT
IN SEPTEMBER 2024, new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer grandly declared that “journalism is the lifeblood of democracy and journalists are the guardians of democratic values”.
1 min
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
WORLD OF SPORT Keely sets record in a date with destiny
KEELY HODGKINSON broke the world record for the women's indoor 800m which has stood since the day she was born in March 2002.
1 min
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
Spray vaccine closer to fight colds, allergies Covid and flu
A UNIVERSAL vaccine for cold, flu, Covid and allergies is a significant step closer, scientists believe.
2 mins
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
WORLD'S END IS PURE HULL
Rovers hang on to make quad history
2 mins
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
TAKE A FLYER TO DOWN HILL
Tripoli has capital chance
1 mins
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
Ferguson back under the radar after arrest of her ex-husband
FOLLOWING her ex-husband's arrest, attention will turn to Sarah Ferguson, who has not been seen for months since new details of her connection to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein came to light.
1 min
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
Second winter surge for norovirus
NOROVIRUS cases have surged in a second winter wave, hitting the highest levels of the season.
1 min
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
We've Scot to hit back now, Luke admits
COWAN-DICKIE is looking for a reaction to their Edinburgh flop.
1 mins
February 20, 2026
Daily Express
'The greatest threat to the monarchy since abdication...in many regards, this is worse'
NEWS that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested — on his 66th birthday, no less — is the greatest existential threat to the reputation of the monarchy since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, and in many regards worse.
3 mins
February 20, 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size
