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Starmer Vows IRGC Ban After London Synagogue Arson

4/25/2026

Summary

Story summary

Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the next parliament while speaking at a London synagogue recently targeted by arson.
He announced that legislation to proscribe the IRGC will be introduced in the upcoming parliamentary session.
Two teenagers, aged 17 and 19, have been arrested in connection with the synagogue arson.
Jewish leaders warned that security costs for their communities are rising sharply.

History

Historical Context

During the early 1970s the Provisional IRA escalated its campaign, killing about 100 British soldiers and launching roughly 1,300 bomb attacks in 1972 alone. The British government responded with emergency legislation that later enabled the formal proscription of terrorist groups, a precedent cited as it considers outlawing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after a recent synagogue arson.

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Story summary

Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the next parliament while speaking at a London synagogue recently targeted by arson.
He announced that legislation to proscribe the IRGC will be introduced in the upcoming parliamentary session.
Two teenagers, aged 17 and 19, have been arrested in connection with the synagogue arson.
Jewish leaders warned that security costs for their communities are rising sharply.

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