The US State Department is reportedly pressuring the UK government to not proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), despite the US having already done so.
American diplomats are arguing that the UK could be a key diplomatic conduit with Iran and its leadership, and say proscribing the IRGC would undermine that.
The final decision rests with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was due to make a decision last month, but has held off due to alleged disagreements with Whitehall over the move.
The Home Office is reportedly very much in favour of proscription, and the move is backed by Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, while the Foreign Office is very much opposed.
The intervention by Joe Biden’s diplomats comes despite the US having proscribed the group in 2019 – albeit under former president, Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat warned that Iran is hiring organised criminals to spy on Britain’s Jews in preparation for a potential assassination campaign against prominent members of the community.
Proscribing the IRGC would make it a criminal offence to belong to the group, attend meetings, encourage support for it, for display its logo in public.
Source: Jewish Chronicle
This year, we want to do more to bless Israel and the Jewish people.
We know that as we bless Israel this year, God will bless us, just as He promised in Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Now is the time to bless Israel and the Jewish people.
