Former home secretary David Blunkett has become the most senior Labour party member to call for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be banned by Britain under new terror-style powers.
Lord Blunkett, who served in Tony Blair’s government, said he backed the proscription of the IRGC, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Thursday, the EU's foreign ministers agreed to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation in response to Tehran’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters. The bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said “repression cannot go unanswered”.
The move was welcomed by victims in Eur
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