UK effectively bans Iran's IRGC as national security threat Submitted by Oscar Rickett on Mon, 07/13/2026 - 13:15 Home Office using controversial new legislation to designate Iranian force a threat to national security Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi attends a public farewell ceremony to pay his respects to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Te… Senior Iranian officials called for revenge against the United States and Israel for killing the late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a new exchange of attacks pushed the region into deeper uncertainty. Iran's new supreme leader and President Trump traded threats on Saturday after the U.S.
military battered Iran and Iran fired upon vessels sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Large crowds of mourners marched through Mashhad on 9 July for the burial of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Mashhad’s Imam Reza Shrine. Iran's former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was buried amid an escalating exchange of fire on the 132nd day of the war.
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