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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)


Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps should be formally named a terrorist group as part of a UK retaliation to Ali Reza Akbari's execution, says Labour.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a special branch of Iran's armed forces, was "Behaving like a terrorist organisation and must now be proscribed as such", said shadow foreign secretary David Lammy and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.
Labour also spoke of the unjust imprisonment of British nationals in Iran, long-standing concerns about Iran's threats to Israel, and its support for violent groups across the region as reasons to formally declare the corps a terrorist o. The move could have widespread domestic political support after MPs last week voted in favour of adding the revolutionary guards to a list of banned terrorist organisations in the UK. The backbench motion, tabled by Conservative MP Bob Blackman, is non-binding on the government and ministers are still considering the matter.


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They certainly dress like a middle eastern terrorist