And no, proscription is not simply symbolic as government ministers and unelected Whitehall bureaucrats would like us to think. It would have practical consequences on the IRGC’s ability to operate in the UK. This is because the IRGC is no ordinary military force – in fact, it doesn’t even recognise itself as such. Rather, it is an armed Islamist extremist organisation that operates no differently to groups already proscribed in Britain: from Islamic State and al-Qaeda to Hezbollah, which it helped create. Like these Islamist terror groups, the IRGC has a formal programme of indoctrination to radicalise all of its...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
