The EU has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organisation” after a meeting of European foreign ministers, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas says.
– European Union foreign ministers have imposed new sanctions on Iran, which involve travel bans and asset freezes on Iranian officials whom they think are responsible for killing thousands of antigovernment protesters since late December last year.
– The General Staff of the Armed Forces has issued a response to the EU’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a component of Iran’s armed forces, which Europe’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas announced a short while ago.
– The statement called the EU’s actions “illogical, irresponsible and spiteful”, saying they had been carried out “in unconditional obedience to the hegemonic and inhumane policies of the United States and the Zionist [Israeli] regime.”