{"id":690120,"date":"2026-07-13T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690120\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:11:10","slug":"u-k-government-to-designate-irans-irgc-a-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690120\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Government to Designate Iran\u2019s IRGC a Threat to National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cOver the last year alone, they have backed more than 20 potentially lethal attacks on U.K. soil,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/pm-statement-on-iran-28-february-2026\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In March,<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7382853\/british-police-arrest-iran-spies-jewish-community-threat\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> four men were arrested <\/a>on suspicion of conducting surveillance of locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community in London to assist Iran. Two of the men were later charged with \u201cengaging in conduct that is likely to assist a foreign intelligence service\u201d between July and August last year.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The new powers regarding state threats build on a broader government effort to\u00a0strengthen protections for Jewish communities in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cJewish communities will see a major boost in protection, backed by more than \u00a3250 million (around $333 million) across the next 3 years, as ministers step up efforts to keep communities safe following a series of attacks in London and the raising of the national terror threat level from substantial to severe,\u201d the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/record-investment-to-protect-jewish-communities\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOver the last year alone, they have backed more than 20 potentially lethal attacks on U.K. soil,\u201d he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}