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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0jkj7e87go
UK Bans Support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(BBC News) Jennifer McKiernan - UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will be designated a threat to national security. Mahmood will use new government powers to ban support for the group, which has been linked to death threats, attacks and intimidation in the UK. Support for the IRGC, from expressing a positive opinion to assisting them, will now be an offense punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Iran's IRGC is believed to have directed seven attacks at UK locations linked to Jewish and Israeli communities. MI5 identified at least 20 potentially lethal Iranian-backed plots against people in the UK in the last year. The EU added the IRGC to its terror list in January.