We’ve just had Kensington Gardens closed off after what seems to be an Iranian-inspired drone attack on the Israeli Embassy, but still the government won’t ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. From the JC:
Israel has for the first time officially called upon the British government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, the JC can reveal.
The unprecedented intervention ends years of Jerusalem publicly treating the status of the Islamic Republic group as a domestic matter for the UK.
British politicians from almost all major parties have urged the government to bring in a ban that an Israeli embassy official said was “long overdue” and fall in line with the US and the EU.
On Tuesday Jewish leaders met Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and “reiterated the need for the government to move with urgency to proscribe the IRGC”.
The calls come amid warnings from security experts about the militia’s activities on British soil and the fear of an Iran-sponsored terror attack, along with concern over the danger posed by Iran to UK interests abroad.
This week one expert warned there was a “significant threat” to Jews and Iranian dissidents in the UK from the IRGC.
But still the government is dithering. Making decisions – about anything – is not something they feel comfortable with.
Mick Hartley 
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