UK government proscribes Iran's IRGC

The UK government has announced that it is using its new powers to proscribe Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Sky News reports.

Security minister Angela Eagle wrote in a written statement to parliament that the UK has "identified activity linked to the IRGC involving threats to life and intimidation on UK soil".Another group called The Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), which is linked to Iran, is also being designated by the government following a spate of attacks on the Jewish community in Britain.

And the volunteer corps of Russia's GRU (foreign military intelligence agency) is also being designated under this legislation following "sabotage and other activity directed against the UK and Europe".