Post by Talia Ingleby

The UK has finally designated the IRGC a terrorist organisation, alongside HAYI, under the new National (State Threats) Bill. It was fast-tracked after a string of attacks on the Jewish community and Iranian dissidents, including the arson attack on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green. Years in the making. Countless briefings with MPs, Lords and Ministers. Letters. Media pushes. All to get the threat the IRGC poses on British soil finally taken seriously. But there is still work to be done. This designation won't touch the IRGC's ability to radicalise and spread antisemitic hatred here at home. The Act was built for a conventional hostile state, and the IRGC isn't one. It's a hybrid, part state actor, part terror network, running the same extremist playbook as Hezbollah, ISIS and Al-Qaeda. That mean going after the propaganda, the recruitment, the incitement, not just the official hostile activity. Now we need the will and the resources to dismantle the network around it: the front charities, the "cultural centres," the online operations doing the regime's work on British soil. Grateful to colleagues in Parliament and community, across parties who've fought for this for years, to name but a few… Jonny Newton Russell Langer Adam Ma’anit Talia Kelman Lola Hamilton Yena Zerkel Annabel Sofer Samantha Berkoff Elkie C. Michael Rubin Danny Stone MBE Kasra Aarabi John Woodcock Daniel Sugarman Rebecca Strom Trenner Efrat Sopher, PhD. Dr Dave Rich MBE Izzy Lenga Matthew Davies Freddie Russell James Gurd MBE #IRGC #Iran #Antisemitism #FreeIran #NationalSecurity #UKPolitics