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Former intelligence chiefs urge the government to proscribe the IRGC

They said a ban was a ‘necessary step’ to curtail the IRGC’s activity in the UK

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

IRGC/Basij parade in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Question on March 25, 2026 (Parliament TV)

Prime Minister's Questions

Starmer labels Israeli settlements ‘flagrant breach of international law’ and backs labelling of products

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

IRGC and Basij forces hold military manoeuvres in Tehran, January 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Dame Louise Ellman

Britain must finally proscribe Iran’s IRGC

3 min read

Suella Braverman

Britain has a fifth column says Suella Braverman on visit to Hatzola aftermath

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

A plume of smoke rises from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By Julie Fishman Rayman

Iran’s attacks expose the IRGC threat Europe can no longer ignore

3 min read

Iran

Iranian security chief Larijani ‘killed in IDF strike’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Al Quds Day rally on March 15, 2026 in London (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

4 min read

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By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Iran’s war across Europe –complacency must finally end

The diplomatic leverage that once gave the Islamic Republic reason to calibrate – to keep its plots below the threshold of open confrontation – no longer applies

6 min read

March 13, 2026 14:32

IRGC parade in Tehran on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Impose Russia-style sanctions on Iran to stop UK being haven for ‘blood money’, government urged

Call to widen measures against Islamic Republic comes after new Supreme Leader revealed to hold £100m London property empire

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

March 13, 2026 11:06

Mojtaba Khamenei (centre), new Supreme Leader after death of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Rouzbeh Fouladi / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Fears that Iran may have activated ‘sleeper cells’ around the world

US law enforcement agencies have received an alert regarding suspected trigger messages of Iranian origin

By Mark Wood

1 min read

March 9, 2026 18:08

A US counterterrorism police officer (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

By Roger Macmillan

Khamenei’s death leaves the IRGC stronger – the UK must finally proscribe it

Britain’s response to January’s repression has been limited to condemnations and incremental sanctions – measures which risk looking inadequate in the face of such an extraordinary rupture

3 min read

March 9, 2026 13:20

IRGC/Basij parade in Tehran on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Kasra Aarabi

To topple the Islamic Republic, dismantle the IRGC machinery of repression

There are about 200,000 highly radicalised and armed members that make up this core suppressive force, with at least 50,000 in Tehran alone

5 min read

March 5, 2026 14:22

Members of the Basij militia march in a parade at a Revolutionary Guards base in northeastern Tehran (Image: Getty)

US eliminates IRGC commander behind Trump assassination plot

War Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters at the Pentagon that on Tuesday, the US ‘hunted down and killed’ the Iranian official responsible

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

March 4, 2026 14:53

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives a press conference at the Pentagon on March 4, 2026 (YouTube/ABCNews)

Jewish leaders call on government to take ‘clear and robust’ action against Iran

UK approach ‘is a matter of serious concern,’ say JLC as it urges government to tackle Iran threat

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

March 3, 2026 18:01

Basij militants, wearing military uniforms, hold AK-47s and the flags of Hezbollah and Iran during a parade on January 10, 2025 (Getty Images)

Starmer faces fresh criticism over failure to proscribe IRGC after EU adds group to terrorist list

Shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel questioned why the government had not made good on its pledge to outlaw the IRGC while in opposition

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

February 23, 2026 17:24

Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel (Photo: Getty)

By Kasra Aarabi

Britain is isolated in its failure to ban the IRGC – putting national security at risk

There should be little doubt that Iran’s future leaders will reward those who stood with the people against the tyrannical ayatollah and remember those who failed to act

4 min read

February 4, 2026 09:45

IRGC-Basij parade in Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

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IRGC

Former intelligence chiefs urge the government to proscribe the IRGC

Starmer labels Israeli settlements ‘flagrant breach of international law’ and backs labelling of products

Britain must finally proscribe Iran’s IRGC

Britain has a fifth column says Suella Braverman on visit to Hatzola aftermath

Iran’s attacks expose the IRGC threat Europe can no longer ignore

Iranian security chief Larijani ‘killed in IDF strike’

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

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