IRGC - has the UK determined they are a terrorist organisation?

I am not sure you read my post. I was talking about the US actions. You are talking about January protests in Iran? It seems that EU countries are not supporting US actions irrespective of their official stances on the protests.

The end of the video I linked has a small discussion about a recent torture case, I noticed. It isn't about Iran but I have seen a lot of your recent posts about torture generally so you might be interested if you are interested in that subject matter generally.

I think we also need to bear in mind that it is unlikely that intelligence in the US advised Trump that Iran was an immediate threat, as leading staff have said previously that there is no enduring threat ideologically and no thread militarily if the US stays in the US, because the ballistic missiles won't reach the US from Iran. And we can see from the various high level televised debates that a large number of senior people in the US do not support the military action against Iran. And judging by what Trump and Hegseth are saying, there is a lack of briefing. So there are some strange loose ends when it comes to geopolitical perspectives here.

What is the pressure on countries to proscribe?

There is no possibility that the attacks on Iran are all about protecting the civilians as (a) evidence is growing that this is not what civilians want and (b) the marketing team US is being led by Lindsey Graham who I think considers himself more of a money man than a people's man.

Obviously we know that Israel wants to destroy Iran for many reasons.

The vast majority of people around the world are pushing for diplomacy and negotiation before it is too late. So this is indeed a reason why it is arguably unlikely that the UK will cave to pressure about proscription.

No, you are wrong. The reasons for the UK governnent not proscribing have been extensively set out. They do not mean that either the view of the UK government or 'the prevailing view' more widely is that the Iranian govt/ICRG is not involved in terrorist activity.

Hi Sharon - how rude you are! Try to stay within MN guidelines in your replies, that is, try to be respectful.

What I said was exactly right. That there are reports as you say, but overall what I said was right.

I appreciate the answers. I have been digging around and I don't think that Iran/IRGC is going to be proscribed, the whole issue is highly politicised but the prevailing view is that the Iranian state (government/IRGC etc) is not associated with terrorist attacks. Attacks like the ambulance attacks involved Iranians, but not acting as state agents. Also, it is interesting to note that it is this same government which Trump calls "reasonable" (he thought there had been a regime change, and it seems he wasn't aware that there was an acting government in place, he thought that the assassinations of the former Khomeini and Larijani meant there had been a regime change - I am beginning to wonder if he is being briefed at all).

At the moment the prevailing view in many countries is that the US war against Iran over nuclear weapons is illegal, and the US (Hegseth) is saying publicly that they have no intention of abiding by international law and that they will be bombing Iran back to the stone age by targeting bridges, water plants, electricity plants, carrying out assassinations so I think it is not seen as helpful to jump on their political bandwagon.

I have no idea why the US thinks that it is a good idea to be openly admitting things which are likely to be seen as war crimes.

Interesting that they aren't proscribed.

Linked to so many terrorist plots.

Sir Ken McCallum, MI5’s director-general, revealed in October that the security service had stopped more than 20 Iran-linked plots on British soil in the last year. Intelligence sources anticipated that number would only increase amid the current conflict.

The IRGC is considered the primary exporter of Iranian-linked terrorism abroad, acting as a “praetorian guard” military force in Iran, swearing loyalty to the supreme leader personally and acting independently of the army.

This month, the global terrorism index said the elite military unit was linked to 157 terrorist plots across 15 countries in the past five years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-spy-chiefs-criticise-starmer-060000226.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

From he article above his reasons are:

"The intervention comes after an Iranian-linked group claimed responsibility for an anti-Semitic firebomb attack in north London in the early hours of Monday.
Last week, two Iranian men were charged in a separate case with spying for Tehran over the alleged surveillance of Jewish people in London.
The group of former high-ranking British intelligence officials acknowledged that “speaking publicly is not the norm for our profession”, but said they “now feel compelled to act”.

“Iranian state actors and their proxies are already active inside the UK,” they said."