The Foreign Affairs Committee of the United Kingdom’s House of Commons in a new report urged the British government to designate the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
It is high time for the UK government to proscribe the IRGC as terrorists, which is the demand of the Iranian people and their Resistance.
“We recommend proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its entirety for its clear and enduring support for terrorists and non-state actors working to undermine stability in the region,” read the report.
“Numerous witnesses described the human rights violations perpetrated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), both against the Iranian people and as exporters of terrorism regionally and internationally,” the report added, referring to the IRGC’s human rights violations.
During the November 2019 uprising, the IRGC forced killed at least 1500 protesters. Many more protesters were arrested and are under torture.
The United States previously designated the IRGC in its entirety as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2019. While referring to this fact, the UK Foreign Affairs Committee urged the UK government to take the same action.
“We are satisfied that the actions of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp meet the criteria for prescription in the Terrorism Act 2000 and see prescription as a logical extension of the existing restrictions placed on members of the IRGC by the EU’s sanctions regime.
The IRGC’s philosophy and malign actions within Iran and across the region run counter to the interests of the UK and those of the Iranian people,” the Foreign Affairs Committee added.
Previously, 37 Members of Parliament, in an Early Day Motion, urged the UK government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist entity, for its terrorist activities in the Middle East and abroad, and violating Iranian people’s human rights.
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