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EU agrees to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist group
The EU's designation imposes asset freezes and travel bans on Iran's Revolutionary Guard amid over 6,100 deaths in protests, marking a major step in international response.
- On Thursday, the European Union achieved unanimity in Brussels to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, introducing asset freezes, funding bans, and travel restrictions for its members.
- Protests in Iran began over worsening economic conditions and widened into nationwide unrest, escalating after authorities cut internet on Jan. 8; Human Rights Activists News Agency reported at least 6,373 killed amid repression by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij force in Iran.
- France and Spain reversed earlier objections, clearing the way on Wednesday after Italy shifted earlier this week and Belgium moved toward approval, enabling unanimous EU support.
- Sanctioning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is legally complex as it controls politics and business in Iran, but EU leaders say risks were calculated and "the estimate is that the diplomatic channels will remain open," Kaja Kallas said Thursday.
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European Union designates Iran’s IRGC as terrorist organisation, citing mass killings of civilians
The EU has designated Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organisation in response to the deadly repression of protests that began in December 2025. The sanctions target the IRGC, Iranian officials, and entities supporting internet censorship.
·New Delhi, India
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The decision was controversial – and was now unanimous: the EU foreign ministers officially placed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the EU list of terrorist organisations. Thus, the elite force of the Iranian regime moves into a series of groups such as the "Islamic State" and Al Qaeda. EU chief diplomat Kaja Kallas made the decision public on platform X on Thursday afternoon. "Repression cannot remain unanswered," she wrote. The classificati…
·Vienna, Austria
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