Following the tragic death last month of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Tehran, today Greg followed up on an urgent question in the House of Commons regarding the UK's response to the Iranian regime’s brutal human rights abuses.
The so-called 'morality police' in Iran is a subservient body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which conducts terror operations all over the Middle East.
Greg joined many MPs in calling for the proscription of the IRGC. He highlighted that the UK—quite rightly—has already proscribed Hezbollah, which funds the IRGC, and that, consequently, the UK should proscribe the IRGC too.
Proscribing the IRGC—banning the organisation in the UK—would make it a criminal offence to belong to or invite support for the IRGC; to arrange or assist with the arrangement of a meeting that supports the IRGC; to address such a meeting; or to wear clothing or display articles in public which support the IRGC.
It would also be possible to impose financial sanctions on the IRGC.
We should waste no time in proscribing organisations that care so little for human life.
