Is Iran posing a credible security threat to Londoners? With Jonathan Hall KC

About this episode

The episode discusses the security threat posed by Iran and the implications of recent attacks on Jewish infrastructure in London.

The repeated attacks on Jewish infrastructure over the past few weeks has led to the opening of a Met police counter terrorism investigation into whether the events are linked.  In this episode, host Tamara Kormornick speaks to Jonathan Hall KC, the senior barrister responsible for reviewing the UK government’s terrorism and state threats legislation. The two discuss how the law distinguishes hate crimes from terrorist acts, why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military wing of the Iranian regime, is not currently proscribed as a terrorist group by the UK government, and whether the normalising of extremism is more worrying than extremism itself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Tamara Kormornick

Guest: Jonathan Hall KC

Topics covered

• Iran
• security threat
• terrorism
• hate crimes
• extremism
• UK law

Keywords

• Iran
• security threat
• terrorism
• hate crimes
• extremism
• UK law
• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Met police, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Places: UK, Londoners

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