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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Middleton

Declare Iran’s revolutionary guard a terror group after Alireza Akbari’s execution, Labour urges

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Labour has called for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be branded a terrorist organisation after the execution of Alireza Akbari.

David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said the force, which is a branch of Iran’s armed forces, is “behaving like a terrorist organisation” and should be proscribed.

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