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Iran has warned that the European Union will “shoot itself within the foot” if it designates the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, a day after the European Parliament known as on the EU and its member states to take action.
“We now have repeatedly stated the Revolutionary Guards are a proper and sovereign group whose function is central for guaranteeing Iran’s safety,” Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian stated throughout a telephone name to the EU’s Excessive Consultant for Overseas Affairs, Josep Borrell.
“Steps taken by the European Parliament to listing the group as terrorist are in a means a shot within the foot of Europe itself.”
On Wednesday, the European Parliament known as for the EU to listing the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group, blaming it for the repression of home protesters and the availability of drones to Russia’s navy to be used in Ukraine.
Iran’s Common Workers of the Armed Forces, which coordinates actions between Iran’s typical military and the Revolutionary Guards, additionally warned the EU on Thursday to not listing Guards as a terrorist group, Iran’s official information company IRNA stated.
“The current motion of the European Parliament, apart from having no precedent in worldwide guidelines and rules, will have an effect on world in addition to regional safety and peace, and the European Parliament ought to concentrate on such penalties,” the Common Workers of the Armed Forces’ assertion learn.
The assertion additionally accused Western powers of being behind unrest in Iran.
Widespread anti-government demonstrations erupted in Iran in September after the demise in custody of Kurdish Iranian lady Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by morality police implementing the Islamic Republic’s obligatory costume code for girls.
The European Parliament condemned the crackdown on protesters by Iran’s safety forces, which embrace the highly effective Revolutionary Guard Corps, as “brutal”.
Iran and world powers, together with EU members France and Germany, have engaged in negotiations since 2021 to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, with discussions in a stalemate since September.
– Reuters
