This isn’t the first government that has tried to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.
Successive governments in the past have also attempted to list it as such but stopped short of doing so. This is because the IRGC is still an arm of the Iranian state and that has presented some legal challenges.
Outgoing PM Starmer did table a bill in parliament in April as he wanted it to be a part of his legacy package and he seems to be fast-tracking it through.
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Such a brain dead idea. The IRGC is a national military organization. If you start branding national militaries as terrorist organizations, and then start prosecuting members of those militaries on terrorism charges? Well that’s a two-way street. Pretty soon Iran will be putting captured British troops on trial for terrorism charges and holding them personally accountable for following the orders of their government.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 week ago
iocase@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The Americans should get designated as terrorists first under that logic. That’s like their entire thing
lbfgs@programming.dev 1 week ago
Britain is allowing the US to use its airbases to attack Iran. That sounds exactly like sponsoring proxy attacks on foreign soil.
TessierAshpool@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Does the British government not send arms to genocidal colonial settler states? For the purpose of carrying out genocide?
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 week ago
An important difference, but doesn’t invalidate the point the previous poster made