Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) volition beryllium designated a menace to nationalist security.
Mahmood volition usage caller authorities powers to prohibition enactment for the group, which has been linked to decease threats and intimidation successful the UK.
In a written connection to Parliament, she acceptable retired however enactment for the IRGC, from expressing a affirmative sentiment to assisting them, volition present beryllium an offence punishable by up to 14 years successful prison.
Two different groups are besides being proscribed, the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), and the unpaid corps of Russia's GRU (foreign subject quality agency).
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