The UK government announced plans on Monday to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign-backed threat to national security, in a “proscription-like” designation. This comes amidst the ongoing military standoff between the United States and Iran and escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf.
“Anyone found supporting or assisting these groups will now face up to 14 years in prison,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said of a proposed law to be presented to parliament this week.
The banned groups would also include Russia’s GRU Volunteer Corps, part of Moscow’s military intelligence agency, and an Iran-linked group behind attacks on Jewish properties in London.
On the ground in Iran, US strikes killed two people on Monday in southwestern part of the country in an oil-producing region near Kuwait and Iraq, the Iranian Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported.
“At this time, two people have been reported dead and three wounded,” the agencies said, citing a Khuzestan province official, who mentioned strikes in “three different locations” on the outskirts of the city of Abadan.
In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran on Monday fired “warning shots” at two ships attempting to cross the strait, state television reported, as Tehran and Washington battle for control of the strategic waterway.
“This morning, two ships that were attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz illegally were targeted and stopped by warning shots fired by the navy of the Revolutionary Guards,” said a correspondent on national television based near the strait.
Meanwhile, Bahrain’s military accused Iran of targeting civilians with its latest attacks on the kingdom, after Tehran said it had struck US military facilities and infrastructure there.
“Iran continues its systematic hostile approach through its heinous attacks with missiles and drones that target civilians in the Kingdom of Bahrain,” the general command of Bahrain’s military said in a statement, adding that air defenses “intercepted and destroyed a number of Iranian aerial attacks” on Monday morning. (AFP/EIR)
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