A government minister has attacked the Iranian regime and the actions of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “a threat to the safety and security of the UK and our allies”.
Security Minister Dan Jarvis was responding to a question by Labour Friends of Israel (LFI)’s parliamentary chair Jon Pearce, who asked what steps the government was taking “to deal with the threat posed by Tehran here on British soil”?
Pearce, an MP for High Peak in Derbyshire, told MPs that following a meeting with the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) he had “heard distressing examples of the Iranian regime organising on our campuses and stirring up hatred against Jewish students”.
Jarvis added in his response: “The government continually assesses potential threats to the UK and takes the protection of individuals’ rights, freedoms and safety incredibly seriously, wherever they originate.”
