Briten, die in den letzten Jahren vor ‚Dutzenden‘ von Terroranlagen im späten Stadium gerettet wurden

Being surrounded by people following an ideology that makes them believe other people are filth on the bottom of their shoe never needed to happen but it has, so here we are. Foiled terror attacks for centuries to come.

>The Government has also faced pressure to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a terrorist organisation.

Putting aside the main title and point of the article, this is worth discussing.

[The legal definition of ‚terrorism‘](https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/terrorism) is already insanely wide in the UK such that any non-state armed actor or even a very disruptive group that does sabotage could be considered ‚terroristic‘. Proscriptions are purely political, and most groups that would qualify as ‚terrorists‘ aren’t on the list because they’re not opposing British strategic interests as the state defines them. We’re allied to groups that would easily fit in this definition. It’s obviously broad on purpose to give the state more strategic autonomy to ban support for whatever group they want, basically. Hell, nowdays they even proscribe NON-VIOLENT groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir (obviously I disagree with them but it was a nonsensical proscription done by the Tories to look tough on Israel/Palestine because they lacked the legal authority to end the peaceful protests).

Putting a state actor on the list would overhaul even that. The IRGC is, of course, part of the Iranian Armed Forces. If they’re a terrorist group then it’s hard to see how *every state in the world* isn’t one by the same definition. You think it’s only Iran that covertly meddles overseas? Don’t be naive.

It would just close off routes of diplomacy with Iran for no good reason other than to make the Americans happy. Why are the IRGC a ‚terrorist group‘ but not MI6, Mossad, the CIA, the American Armed Forces, etc etc? Once you get into calling state institutions ‚terrorist‘ you lose any conceptual boundary.

Frankly I think the term ‚terrorist‘ is conceptually and ontologically incoherent already, but that’s another discussion altogether.

Dawg they got anything better to do than cause misery on others?

That being said props to our counter terrorism force.