(National-UAE) Britain will introduce new laws to allow the security services to proscribe state-based groups such as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the home secretary has said.
Following the arrests of eight Iranians allegedly involved in a plot to attack the Israeli embassy, Yvette Cooper told MPs that Britain would “not tolerate growing state-backed threats on UK soil.” In what is a significant diplomatic low between the two countries, the home secretary said the new legislation comes against a “backdrop of rising numbers of Iran-linked operations” on UK soil.
“The Iranian regime poses an unacceptable threat to our domestic security which cannot continue,” she told MPs. The new legislation will cover state-based threats rather than terrorist organisations, which would be tougher than the current National Security Act.
