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Britain on Monday vowed more reprisals against what it said was Tehran's "weakened and isolated regime" after it executed a UK-Iranian dual national.
Following the killing of Alireza Akbari on Saturday, the UK summoned Iran's most senior diplomat and recalled its own ambassador.
But despite slapping sanctions on Iran's prosecutor general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri it stopped short of opposition demands to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Faced with more such demands in parliament, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he could not comment on future proscriptions.
He however said: "We do not limit ourselves to the steps that I have already announced."
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesman told reporters: "We are reviewing further action with our international partners."
British MPs voted last week in favour of adding the IRGC to a list of banned terrorist organisations in the UK.
Cleverly was outspoken in denouncing Iran's leadership after Akbari, 61, was hanged allegedly for spying on Britain's behalf.
He told MPs that "we are witnessing the vengeful actions of a weakened and isolated regime, obsessed with suppressing its own people, debilitated by its own fear of losing power and wrecking its international reputation".
"Our message to that regime is clear: the world is watching you and you will be held to account, particularly by the brave Iranian people, so many of whom you are oppressing and killing."
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said on Twitter that the execution was Tehran's response to "the United Kingdom's action in violating the national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran".
He added that the "noise of the British regime and the support of some human rights claimants in Europe from London show their lawlessness and illegality".
British MP James Slaughter said he had "extensive contact for the past few difficult days" with Akbari's family.
"Earlier today I spoke to Mr Akbari's daughter in the UK, and she asked me to raise a further distressing matter with the Foreign Secretary. The regime refuses to release Mr Akbari's body or to allow burial in the place chosen by him, and have made threats to destroy his body unless the family co-operates with their instructions," he said.
Cleverly replied to Slaughter, saying: "The points that he just raised, I am sure, fill us all with revulsion.
"We will continue to support the family whatever way we can, and he is absolutely right to call upon the regime to treat Mr Akbari in death with the deference and respect that is legitimate."
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