This petition, initiated by the We Believe Alliance calls on the UK Government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Muslim Brotherhood under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Recent upheaval in Iran, including the death of the Supreme Leader and dozens of senior regime officials, has not removed the threat. The IRGC remains the regime’s most powerful force, already remobilising under new leadership and continuing to suppress opposition inside Iran.

Beyond Iran’s borders, the IRGC funds and directs militant proxy groups across the Middle East, including organisations already banned in the UK. Revenues linked to the regime also strengthen IRGC-controlled economic networks that sustain its power and international reach.

For Britain and its varied communities, the threat is direct. MI5 has revealed that around 20 Iran-backed plots posing lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents have been disrupted since 2022.  

The Labour Party committed in its 2024 manifesto to proscribe the IRGC. The legal case has been made. The policy case has been made. The We Believe Alliance made sure that Peers and MPs heard the evidence directly earlier this year at a briefing at the House of Lords. And they all agreed. Without exception! Proscription MUST happen for both organisations.

Alongside this sits the Muslim Brotherhood, whose ideological networks promote hostility toward protected minorities and advance a worldview fundamentally opposed to pluralism, liberty and democratic governance. The United Arab Emirates has already taken decisive action. It has banned the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation and gone further, withdrawing state scholarships for students to study at UK universities over concerns about radicalisation and Brotherhood-linked influence on UK campuses.
And yet Britain hesitates.

Allowing such movements to operate within Britain undermines national security, democratic institutions and the values that underpin our way of life.

We call on the Government to proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood without delay.

Note:
The We Believe Alliance held a successful House of Lords briefing on the proscription of the IRGC and Muslim Brotherhood on 24th February 2026, attended by MPs, Peers and experts in Middle East affairs. To read more about the need for proscription of both organisations, click here to go to our parliamentary briefing