Gerard Craughwell (Independent)

There are two men in Iran today, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, both of whom are political prisoners, both of whom have been turned down for a judicial review for the third time and both of whom will be executed by the regime in Iran. Iran has murdered 1,100 political prisoners since the summer of last year. That tendency is beginning to increase. Iran is at the heart of supporting organisations such as Hezbollah and the other group in Gaza, Hamas. It is time that we followed the example of the House of Lords and the House of Commons and prescribed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, as a terrorist organisation. This organisation does not operate just within Iran; it operates throughout the world. It is a terrorist organisation and it needs to be seen as a terrorist organisation. We had lots of talk here yesterday about Israel and everything that was said was 100% correct but Hamas and Hezbollah are on the other side and they are being supported and funded by the dying regime of Iran that has nothing left but the murder of its own citizens in order to remain in power. I ask that the Leader organises a debate on the IRGC at his earliest convenience to see whether we can organise to follow our neighbours in prescribing that organisation as a terrorist organisation.