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Britain bans support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and two other groups [SOUND]

# The British government says it will ban support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has been linked to death threats, attacks, and intimidation in Britain. The ban follows recent attacks on Jewish-linked sites ​in London. Two other groups are also being proscribed: the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right, linked to Iran, and the Russian GRU Volunteer Corps, an international branch of Russian military intelligence. UK Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, says they cannot allow the safety of citizens to be threatened:

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