Let’s bring you some breaking news now the government’s announced new sanctions coordinated with the US targeting Iranian officials let’s bring in our political correspondent Rob poell for more H Rob what can you tell us so reading the details Jane this is not um a direct response to those um killings
Of US troops in Jordan which of course the US and the UK um has blamed um Iran and Iranian linked groups for this looks to be something that has been in the offing for a little bit longer than that and is actually a response to some Revelations from a TV documentary um in
December what it is is a sanctions package that targets seven individuals and one organization um uh they say that they are senior Iranian officials and members of organized criminal gangs who collaborate with the regime um and the organization is part of the Islamic revolutionary guard Corps uh unit 840
Um exposed in an investigation into plots to assassinate television presenters from the news channel Iran International on UK soil so it essentially means that some senior um Iranian officials and this organization will be subject to asset freezes and travel banss so um organizations in the
UK won’t be able to hold money on behalf of these people um or the organization um and uh the travel ban clearly means that they won’t be able to travel into the UK um either um there’s some details uh that have been released by the government as well saying since the
Start of 2022 the UK’s responded to at least 15 credible threats and plots to kill British or uk-based individuals by the Iranian um regime so this is to do with essentially the domestic threat and the threat posed potential threat posed by Iranian linked groups and individuals
To people within the UK and is a response um to that it is not a response to that um drone attack and the deaths of US troops that we’ve seen in the last 24 hours or so maybe what some um that want a tougher response towards Teran
Would also be calling for in response to this is full prescription of the irgc there have been calls from labor and from some conservatives as well for the group to be described as a terrorist organization um and clearly we wait to see what the response a likely military
Response you would think would be from the US and potentially the UK to those deaths that we saw on the Jordan Syrian Border in the last day or so okay Rob thanks very much