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PM under pressure to designate IRGC as terrorist group as ex-minister says government justifications are ‘absurd’
Rishi Sunak is facing cross-party pressure to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group after Tehran’s assault on Israel over the weekend.
The shadow defence secretary, Labour’s John Healey, and the former Conservative cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith accused the government of being slow to act in the face of the evidence of the growing risk to UK interests.
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