Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced growing calls this evening to classify Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization following the massive attack on Israel.
Figures across politics spectrum urged him to take the initiative after last weekend’s Tehran attack, using 300 missiles and drones.
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Demands to follow the example set by America came from former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and the Labor Party.
Israel has committed to launching its first direct attack on Iran – whose leaders have promised to respond with a storm of more than 3,000 missiles and drones if it does so.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is believed to have 125,000 troops and is responsible for the country’s ballistic missiles.
Braverman said the Prime Minister should put the UK’s national security first by making the organization a banned terrorist group.
She said: “We have known for years that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, financing and promoting terrorist plots, radicalization and hostage taking, both in the Middle East and nationally.
“We banned Hezbollah, we banned Hamas, Prime Minister, why don’t we put the UK’s national security first by now banning the IRGC?”
Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the move would help ensure Iran could no longer brew extremism in the UK. He added: “All roads lead back to Tehran when it comes to the terrible violence and wars taking place in the Middle East.”
Labor Defense Secretary John Healey said the case to ban the IRGC has been fought for more than a year.
Meanwhile, Sunak demands that Israel show restraint in response to Iran’s attack to try to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from spiraling out of control.
The prime minister called out Tehran for its “reckless and dangerous escalation”, describing its missile offensive as the work of a “despotic regime”.
He said he would speak to Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who demanded: “All sides must show restraint.”
Speaking to MPs in the House of Commons, he said that if the attacks on Israel had been successful, the consequences for regional stability would be “difficult to exaggerate”. The Iranian blitz involved 110 ballistic missiles, 36 cruise missiles and 185 drones.
Despite the scale of the attack, only one person was seriously injured. She was seven-year-old Arab girl Amina al-Hasoni, who suffered a head injury when rocket debris fell onto her bedroom ceiling.
His distraught father, Muhammad, 49, called the attack “inhumane” and raged against the Iranian regime: “May God destroy them.”
FEARS OF WWIII
Netanyahu and his war cabinet are still perfecting their counterattack plan.
But fears of a Third World War were growing as Iran warned that any Israeli attack would be met with a response ten times greater than its initial salvo.
The threat raised the specter of war to be joined by Iran’s Lebanese terrorist arm, Hezbollah, which has an arsenal of 120,000 missiles on Israel’s doorstep.
A joint attack would likely overwhelm Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defenses — even with support from U.S. and British warplanes.
It was revealed yesterday that US and RAF fighter jets with allied aircraft from France and Jordan shot down 80 drones and at least six missiles in the attack.
ASK FOR RESTRICTION
Israeli sources said the country’s war cabinet had decided to fight back “clearly and vigorously” but would meet again today before signing off on a plan.
Britain and the US were among the Western nations that called for restraint as concerns grew that the superpowers could be sucked into a wider conflict.
Netanyahu was urged not to respond by his main ally, US President Joe Biden.
But Donald Trump – who will run for re-election in November – promised that he would “make Iran pay”.
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