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A group focused on bringing Iranian terror to British soil which has been allowed to operate with near impunity because of legal buck-passing, is finally to be 'proscribed'. The brutal Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is now virtually running Iran, is behind ongoing terror activities against the UK - both cyber warfare and operations on Britain's streets. Just last month police investigating a suspected terror plot swooped on 10 Iranian men in north London. Four were detained under the National Security Act.

IRGC activities have also been linked to recent attacks on British Jewish communities and synagogues. The nationality of today's knifeman who stabbed two Jewish men is currently unknown but a series of coordinated arson and attempted arson attacks targeting synagogues, Jewish community ambulances, Jewish charity buildings, and a Persianlanguage media outlet in northwest London, have been linked to the IRGC. The UK's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, said there were indications that a proxy of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was behind the attacks. Even Keir Starmer described the perpetrators as "malign state actors".

Since 1979 the IRGC - the armed quasi-military wing of Iran's theocratic dictatorship - has been used by subsequent Ayatollahs to carry out mass state killings. Most recently the IRGC was used to quell the January uprisings against the Ayatollah. An estimated 40,000 people, mostly teenagers and young people, have been killed.

The IRGC also uses platforms like Telegram to recruit operatives in Britain to act as sleepers.

In October, Director General of MI5, Sir Ken McCallum revealed security agencies had tracked "more than 20 potentially lethal Iran-backed plots" in the previous year. And Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said Iran poses a "wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat."

Despite this, successive Governments have failed to 'proscribe' the IRGC - a legal move which would give security services, police and politicians much tougher powers against the very real IRGC threat.

Opponents of the Iranian dictatorship say it would also send out a signal to Iran and the world that the Ayatollah's repressive regime was unacceptable.

However, as UK law stands it is impossible to proscribe a state or state mechanism of repression, and the Government seems incapable of finding a way forward.

But last night a group of MPs who have been campaigning for the IRGC to be proscribed were celebrating that it was finally going to happen.

In a meeting of cross party sitting and former members of the House of Commons and House of Lords Several MPs and their peers underscored that the proscription was a result of years of unrelenting endeavor by the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran and its president-elect of Maryam Rajavi played a key role over the years to make the proscription take place.

In a video message Bob Blackman, MP for Harrow East and Chairman of the British Committee for Iran Freedom, said: " Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that his government finally intends to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to place the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the list of proscribed terrorist organisations.

"The Bill is expected to be introduced in the King's Speech and or during the summer session and will then proceed through the House of Commons and the House of Lords until final approval and indeed consent from the King. It is expected to receive strong cross-party support and should be passed immediately."

Maryam Rajavi, spoke to the meeting by a video address. She said the people's resistance inside Iran had carried out more than 600 operations against the IRGC and the ruling regime but that brutal internal crackdowns were intensifying, hidden by the shutdown of the internet.

She pointed to the 18 hangings of political prisoners, without any due legal process, which were designed to terrorise the population into submission and added: "The regime is obviously concerned about future uprisings. Through these brutal executions, the regime seeks to terrorise young people and to prevent them from joining the Resistance Units that play a decisive role in organising and expanding the uprising.

"However, the regime is facing a generation that has found its path in resistance and is no longer willing to tolerate the clerics' repression and dictatorship.

"Unfortunately, the European governments, including the United Kingdom, have been silent in the face of such brutality. The regime benefits from Europe's silence on executions and torture in Iran, while what it offers in return is the spread of crisis and insecurity around the world, including acts of terrorism even in the United Kingdom.

"Since 2010, we have repeatedly stated, the Revolutionary Guard Corps must be designated as a terrorist organisation. This has been a long-standing demand of the Iranian Resistance. We hope that the legal obstacles to this decision will be removed as soon as possible."