(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 3. The British
authorities are going to recognize the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization in the coming weeks,
trend reports,
citing the Daily Telegraph.
If the IRGC is included in the list of terrorist organizations,
belonging to it, as well as participation in its events, wearing
its symbols and supporting its activities will become a criminal
offense in the UK.
The publication noted that the recognition of the IRGC as a
terrorist organization is supported by Interior Minister Suella
Braverman and her deputy Tom Tugendhat, who is considered the main
author of the initiative.
In total, since 2000, after the adoption of the relevant
legislation, 78 organizations have been recognized as terrorist in
the UK. On November 16, the head of the British MI5
counterintelligence service, Ken McCallum, claimed that the Iranian
authorities had made at least 10 attempts to kidnap or kill critics
of Tehran living in the UK.
In December, the EU imposed sanctions on the IRGC for
'executions and violence against innocent people.' Prior to that,
the EU authorities stated that they were considering adding the
Islamic Revolutionary Guards to the terrorist list. Meanwhile, the
US added the IRGC to the terrorist list in 2019.
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