Today, the Home Secretary has announced that the British Government will proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Using new Government powers, it will be designated a threat to national security under the National Security (State Threats) Act 2026. Expressing support for the IRGC will now be an offence punishable by up to fourteen years in prison.
Our campaign has largely achieved its objective, with thousands signing our petition. This is a significant step that we and other campaigners, parliamentarians and thousands of supporters have been calling for, in the Jewish community, in the Iranian diaspora and beyond.
For years, the IRGC has promoted antisemitism, exported terror, targeted Jewish communities, threatened dissidents on British soil and supported extremist proxies across the world. The UK’s response has finally risen to the seriousness of that threat.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The British Government’s proscription of the IRGC is welcome and our polling shows that 93% of British Jews wanted the IRGC to be proscribed. However, it is a shameful sign of how far behind our country has fallen that this measure has taken years, despite our calls, along with the calls of Iranian dissidents in the UK and security chiefs.
“Now, the Government needs to crack down on organisations linked to the IRGC, rooting them out and shutting them down to stop the spread of hate in our country. Glorifying and celebrating terror must have consequences. IRGC fronts masquerading as charities must be shut down. Anything less than the full force of the law being applied to these groups and individuals is a grotesque failure to defend our country.”
