The warning of the British regulatory body about the “terrorist” consequences of declaring the IRGC

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, a monitoring body has warned that the declaration of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist organization” will destabilize the British definition of terrorism and put the military forces of London’s international allies within the scope of the terrorism law.

Following the British government’s hostile and anti-Iranian actions, the Independent reported that London is considering banning Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under terrorism laws, which it has never used against a government entity before.

According to the report, there are practical concerns about the impact of the ban, which creates a range of related crimes, including soliciting support and displaying, publishing or sharing online IRGC flags and symbols.

“Jonathan Hall KC”, the head of the government organization “Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws”, warned that the official declaration of the IRGC as a terrorist group will have far-reaching consequences.

In a report seen by the Independent, it is stated: Prohibiting a government entity under the Terrorism Act 2000 is a departure from the UK’s unchanged and decades-old policy and calls into question the definition of terrorism that has been applicable and effective until today. If it is possible to link state forces with terrorism, the question of how the definition of terrorism should be applied to other state forces should be addressed, at the cost of the risk of upsetting the fixed meaning of terrorism in domestic laws.

He warned that if UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman were to ban the IRGC, “the logic would be that all government forces, including allied forces, must be associated with terrorism at some point or all the time”. He added, “It’s one thing to consider militias and people who overthrow the government through violence as terrorists, but it’s completely different to use the word terrorist for government institutions that traditionally have a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.”

According to this report, when the United States declared the IRGC a “terrorist organization” in 2019, it claimed that the Iranian regime’s use of terrorism as a tool of governance fundamentally distinguishes it from any other government; But according to Hall, the UK’s legal definition of terrorism makes no distinction. According to this watchdog, “the arguments that the IRGC is particularly evil or that its plan of action is particularly harmful have no basis under the terrorism law.”

A spokesman for the British government said: “While the government is reviewing the list of banned organizations, we do not comment on whether a specific organization is being banned.”

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