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Iran: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 45275, tabled on 2 September 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran’s regional activity.

Answered on

29 September 2022

The UK Government regularly assesses the impact of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continued destabilising activity throughout the region.

The UK maintains a range of sanctions that work to constrain the destabilising activity of the IRGC. We also support the enforcement of UN prohibitions on the proliferation of weapons to non-state actors in the region, including to Lebanese Hizballah (UNSCR 1701) and the Houthis in Yemen (UNSCR 2216).