At yesterday’s meeting of the House of Lords in Britain Jan 19, 2022, Lord Andrew Sharpe, a senior member of the British Government in the House of Lords, said that Britain was “continuously” considering the proposal to place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. (IRGC) and the Yemeni Houthi group as terror groups.
Responding to a question from Lord Pollock, who said the group and the Revolutionary Guards needed to be sanctioned in the wake of the Houthi drone strike in Abu Dhabi, he said the British government “regularly assesses the impact of the IRGC’s destabilising activity throughout the region, including its political, financial and military support to several militant and proscribed groups,”
He added that “the list of proscribed organisations is kept under constant review, but we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for prescription.”
The US government has called the IRGC a terrorist organization, and some sources say the British government has made a similar decision.
President Trump’s administration also described the Houthis as a terrorist organization, but the Joe Biden administration removed the group from the list of terrorist organizations after coming to power.
