US EditionEU ministers approve new Iran sanctions after Tehran's crackdown on protests, EU diplomats say
The EU sanctioned 15 Iranian officials and six groups over a deadly protest crackdown and plans to classify the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
- On January 28, European Union foreign ministers approved new sanctions and moved politically toward listing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
- Amid evidence of a brutal crackdown, Human Rights Activists News Agency verified 6,221 deaths by January 28 as Iranian authorities imposed a near-total internet shutdown from January 8, aided by Basij.
- EU ambassadors approved sanctions targeting Iran's Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and 14 other officials, including Sahara Thunder and the Khojir missile complex.
- Listing the IRGC would place it on the same footing as al-Qaida, Hamas and Daesh and could see IRGC assets in Europe seized, Kaja Kallas, EU foreign policy chief, said Thursday.
- Amid the listing move, Iran threatened live-fire naval drills next week in the Strait of Hormuz, risking disruption of 20% of the world's oil traffic as the USS Abraham Lincoln entered the Mideast.
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"If you act as a terrorist, you must be treated as a terrorist" says EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Kaja Kallas, arguing the EU's decision to designate the Guard Corps of the Iranian Revolution as terrorists and to impose sanctions against fifteen people and six entities responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran. Moreover, the EU has already adopted 19 packages of sanctions against Russia as a result of the invasion of U…
Military elite and economic emporium with the mission of protecting the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Revolutionary Guard (IRC) will be considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union (EU) for the repression of protests that have shaken the Persian country. Foreign ministers of the European Union arrived this Thursday to an informal political agreement to include the Revolutionary Guard of Iran on the list of EU terrorist organizations…
EU designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organisation
The EU has formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation, aligning it with groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaida. Tensions between Tehran and Washington are escalating amid one of the deadliest protest crackdowns in Iran’s recent history.
EU to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, top diplomat says
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar called the decision 'important and historic,' saying that Israel had worked intensely to 'achieve this outcome.' The EU's Kaja Kallas said, 'If you act as a terrorist, you should also be treated as a terrorist'
The Heads of Diplomacy of the Twenty-Seven have agreed to place the Revolutionary Guards on the list of terrorist organisations drawn up by the EU. This registration will be endorsed at a forthcoming meeting, and the concrete consequences will then be detailed. The persons and groups placed on this list are the subject of a series of measures, ranging from the financial field to a ban on access to European land, in some cases. - The Iranian Revo…
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