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Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation The UK will ban support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Keir Starmer said on Monday, in a move that officials said came close to proscribing the military group as a terrorist organisation.
Until now ministers had not officially blamed the IMCR for those attacks, but the security minister, Angela Eagle, said on Monday: “Sitting behind IMCR were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds force, who almost certainly directed IMCR attacks across Europe.
It was announced alongside similar designations for the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), which has been blamed for attacks on Jewish targets in the UK, and the Russian GRU Volunteer Corps, an international branch of Russian military intelligence.
The group had said online that it was responsible for a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London in recent months, including fires at synagogues and Jewish charity ambulances, as well as a Persian-language media organization critical of Iran’s government.
Eagle said: “There is sufficient basis to reasonably believe that each of these bodies is engaged in foreign power threat activity, and that each designation is necessary to protect the safety and interests of the United Kingdom.”
The prime minister announced his government would designate the branch of the Iranian military under a new National Security Act, enabling law enforcement to take action against anyone deemed to be providing it with support.
A series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain was the work of a proxy group backed by Iran, the U.K. government said Monday. The government said it is banning the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said: “Iran and Russia are using proxies and thugs to do their dirty work on our shores. Earlier this month, two Romanian men were given prison sentences over the stabbing of a journalist from a Persian-language television station, an attack the judge said was carried out on behalf of the Iranian state.
What's confirmed
- Until now ministers had not officially blamed the IMCR for those attacks, but the security minister, Angela Eagle, said on Monday: “Sitting behind IMCR were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’…
- Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation The UK
- Until now ministers had not officially blamed the IMCR for those attacks, but the security minister, Angela Eagle, said on Monday: “Sitting behind IMCR were members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds fo
- It was announced alongside similar designations for the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), which has been blamed for attacks on Jewish targets in the UK, and the Russian GRU Volunteer Corps, an internati
- The group had said online that it was responsible for a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London in recent months, including fires at synagogues and Jewish charity ambulances, as well as a Persian-language media
- “There is sufficient basis to reasonably believe that each of these bodies is engaged in foreign power threat activity, and that each designation is necessary to protect the safety and interests of the United Kingdom.”
What's still developing
- Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation Home Office announces move that officials say comes close to proscribing group as a terrorist organisation…
- The prime minister announced his government would designate the branch of the Iranian military under a new National Security Act, enabling law enforcement to take action against anyone deemed to be providing it with…
- It was announced alongside similar designations for the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), which has been blamed for attacks on Jewish targets in the UK, and the Russian GRU Volunteer Corps, an…
- Starmer said: “We have already taken tough action against the Iranian regime and those linked to it, and against Russian operatives and networks targeting our country.
- Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said: “Iran and Russia are using proxies and thugs to do their dirty work on our shores.
- Eagle said: “There is sufficient basis to reasonably believe that each of these bodies is engaged in foreign power threat activity, and that each designation is necessary to protect the safety and interests of the…
- A series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain was the work of a proxy group backed by Iran, the U.K. government said Monday.
- The government said it is banning the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.