{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9475d117-fcd4-4915-a6f3-923941e7aa0d/69e95277abe143da5b9fc4ef?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Is Iran posing a credible national security threat to Londoners? With Jonathan Hall KC","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba05fc1a8cbed4343cf0e6/1776898534632-8f1fc471-dc72-4267-9c4b-254aa6d0842e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>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.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The Evening Standard"}