(Telegraph-UK) Stephen Crabb and Steve McCabe - The brutal regime in Tehran is deploying unimaginable violence against its own citizens for daring to call for greater freedoms. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has become the world's pre-eminent terror organization. Its terror franchises Hizbullah and Hamas are the de-facto rulers of Lebanon and Gaza respectively, inflicting immeasurable suffering. The UK's continuing failure to proscribe the IRGC is indefensible. This inaction has led to an emboldened IRGC. It is now brazenly conducting ever more activities in the UK, presenting a clear and immediate threat. Its involvement in the attempted kidnap and killing of UK-based individuals was dramatically revealed by MI5 last year. A number of Islamic centers in the UK have also been publicly linked to the IRGC. Photos showing British children celebrating arch-IRGC terror leader Qassem Soleimani as a "martyr" are particularly chilling. Criminalizing the IRGC would decisively curtail its activities in the UK - disrupting funding streams, and ending its attempts to promote home-grown extremism. There is near unanimous support for proscription in Parliament, uniting members in a way that precious few issues do. Stephen Crabb MP is Conservative Friends of Israel parliamentary chairman (Commons). Steve McCabe MP is Labour Friends of Israel parliamentary chairman.
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