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Jan van der Made

Iran slams EU Parliament for proposal to brand Revolutionary Guard as terrorists

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the subject of a European Parliament motion that wants to brand it a terrorist organisation. AFP - ATTA KENARE

Tehran reacted angrily after the European Parliament called on Thursday for the EU to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation. The parliamentary motion blames the powerful force for the repression of protesters and the supply of drones to Russia.

Tehran condemned the motion's call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, which may imply that Brussels could open the way for sanctions against the militia.

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