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Iran Guards Claim That EU Terror Label Would Be A 'Mistake'


Members of the European Parliament voted on January 18 to include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the EU's terror list. (fie photo)
Members of the European Parliament voted on January 18 to include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the EU's terror list. (fie photo)

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on January 21 warned the European Union against making a "mistake" by listing it as a terror group, after the bloc's parliament called for the measure. Members of the European Parliament voted on January 18 to include the IRGC on the 27-nation bloc's terror list in "light of its terrorist activity, the repression of protesters, and its supplying of drones to Russia." The vote is nonbinding but comes with EU foreign ministers already due to discuss tightening sanctions on the Islamic republic next week.

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