The British government is edging slowly toward declaring the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. Last week, members of the House of Commons voted in favor of such a measure. Then, on Saturday, a British-Iranian dual national, Alireza Akbari, who was Iran’s deputy defense minister nearly 20 years ago, was executed by the Iranian state. The
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