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Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Outlawing Iran's IRGC as terrorist organisation would have 'no benefit', UK watchdog claims

Outlawing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation will have no practical benefit, the Government’s terror watchdog has warned.

Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorist legislation, said that new powers capable of dealing with “malign Iranian activity” had already been passed by Parliament last year and there was no precedent for proscribing part of another nation’s state.

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