MINISTERS are considering changes to Britain’s terror laws which would allow it to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Trade Secretary Peter Kyle said the government would explore these changes after admitting that proscribing Iran’s primary military branch would not be “appropriate” under current laws.

He said the government was considering a change in domestic terror legislation and that it remained committed to supporting the people of Iran as they face deadly repression in response to recent protests.

Hundreds have been killed and many more detained by Iranian police since the start of mass demonstrations and anger over Iran’s weak economy.

On Sunday, transport secretary Heidi Alexander said Britain wants a “peaceful transition” of power away from the current Islamic Republic, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country with military intervention.

“The British government has always viewed Iran as a hostile state,” Ms Alexander told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.