European Union foreign ministers have agreed to add Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, European Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday on the social media platform X.
“EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,” Kallas said.
The EU’s decision follows France’s Wednesday announcement that it would support the move, after initially hesitating.
“France will support the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations,” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on X on Wednesday.
“The unbearable repression of the peaceful uprising of the Iranian people cannot go unanswered. The extraordinary courage they have shown in the face of the blind violence unleashed upon them cannot be in vain.”
