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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey calls on the government to ban the IRGC and expel the Iranian Ambassador to the UK, in order to root out the causes of antisemitic attacks and stop the spreading of hatred towards the Jewish community.
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00:00I think that's the right thing to do. I'm sure the Security Services and the Met Police have advised the
00:04government to do that,
00:05but we now need a stronger response from the government.
00:08Yes, it's right to make sure there's more police supporting our Jewish community,
00:12but we need to deal with some of the causes of this.
00:14The Iranians in particular have been active in our country, stirring up divisive hatred.
00:18I think the Iranian ambassador to the UK should be expelled, as they've done in Australia,
00:23and I think we should prescribe the IRGC, which is an arm of the Iranian state,
00:28which we know has fermented hate against the Jewish community here.
00:33They should be prescribed and banned.

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