Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has released a major report revealing that Iran has targeted “prominent Jewish individuals” among at least fifteen attempts to kill or kidnap people in Britain.
The report states: “When summarising Iran’s approach to the UK, the Intelligence Community noted that Iran…represents a significant threat to Israeli and Jewish entities.”
Among its top priorities of maintaining the theocratic regime and protecting Shia interests worldwide, targeting Jews and Israelis is a key goal of the Islamic Republic. The IRGC is the key instrument for executing these objectives.
The report notes media reports that the IRGC has allegedly attempted to radicalise British university students through online talks in which IRGC officers espoused antisemitic and violent views, urging students to support illegal attacks and venerating people who had carried out acts of aggression.
The report warned the “physical threat” from Tehran has “significantly increased” which is now “comparable with that posed by Russia.”
Luke Akehurst, Labour MP for North Durham, said, “I thoroughly welcome the move to proscribe Palestine Action after their violent attacks on defence companies and, most alarmingly, on RAF Brize Norton.
It’s now urgent, given the conflict in Iran, that the Government moves to proscribe the IRGC, which is a terrorist organisation that represents a significant threat, including here in the UK.
Nigel Farage, warned to The Telegraph, “The Iranian regime has clearly been funding propaganda hubs and promoting terror throughout the UK.
Farage added, “When will Starmer stand up to the Ayatollah and proscribe the IRGC?
Committee chairman Lord Beamish said: “Iran poses a wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat to the UK, UK nationals and UK interests.
“As the committee was told, Iran is there across the full spectrum of all the kinds of threats we have to be concerned with,” he added.
The report further reads, “The Home Office has rightly proscribed several Iran-supported groups assessed to be concerned in terrorism – such as Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Lebanese Hizbollah – but there are increasingly calls for the UK to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.”
The report concluded, The Government should fully examine whether it would be legally possible and practicable to proscribe the IRGC and, if so, what the arguments are both for and against – and make a full statement to Parliament.”
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said, “We welcome this critical report into a regime that threatens British Jews and the UK and its national interests more generally.
“The IRGC is the principal instrument by which Iran puts these threats into practice. Prior to the election, this Government promised to proscribe. It must now keep its word.”
