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EU Lawmakers Keep up Pressure to Ban Iran's Guards

FILE PHOTO: A general view at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo/File Photo

The European Parliament called on Wednesday for the EU to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

In a text backed by an overwhelming majority of lawmakers, the European Parliament condemned "the brutal crackdown by Iran, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on the demonstrations after the death of Mahsa Amini, following her violent arrest, abuse and ill-treatment by Iran's 'morality police'".

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