Security Minister Refuses to Confirm Government Action on Iran Revolutionary Guards

Campaigner says UK's reluctance to proscribe IRGC could be owing to its state status

Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat speaks at a fringe meeting at the annual Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, England, on Oct. 2, 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images

Britain’s security minister has refused to definitively state whether a branch of Iran’s armed forces will be proscribed after increasing concerns over the regime’s activity in the UK.

Speaking in the Commons on Monday, Tom Tugendhat declined to directly answer questions from several MPs on whether the UK will make the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) illegal.