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Sonja Issel

After EU decision: Iran says it now considers all EU militaries as terrorist groups

Iran says it now considers all European Union militaries to be terrorist groups, lashing out after the bloc declared the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a terror group over its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

The terror-designation announcement was made by the Islamic Republic's speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former Guard commander, on Sunday and comes after the EU placed the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran (IRGC) on the terror list last week.

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