Calls to list IRGC as terrorist entity re-emerge as Tories take four-year push to Foreign Affairs Committee

The Conservatives have pushed the government to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity since a 2018 vote when the Liberals supported their opposition motion.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino voted in support of listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity in 2018, but have been silent on why a listing has not taken place. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

October 5, 2022

Amid increasing protests in Iran after the death of a women in custody, Conservative MPs are renewing their calls to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist entity, including at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Protests erupted across Iran following the Sept. 16 deat...

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