Lammy calls on the Government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

In foreign, commonwealth and development office questions today, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy probed the Government on its policy on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the government’s sanction regime in Russia.

Mr Lammy said: “Labour has been clear and I wonder if we might get clarity from the foreign secretary. We would proscribe the IRGC either using exist in terrorism legislation or by creating a new process of prescription for hostile state actors”.

Foreign secretary James Cleverly responded: “We will continue to take actions which will curtail the ability of the IRGC to do these things. And as I have said, we do not limit ourselves to the responses that are already announced. We always keep all future options under review”.