Iran labels European armies as terrorist in response to IRGC blacklist

The Iranian Parliament designated the armies of European countries as terrorist organisations under domestic law in response to the European Union’s decision to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

Addressing a parliamentary session on January 31, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that, pursuant to Article 7 of Iran’s law on reciprocal action against the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organisation, the armed forces of European countries are considered terrorist groups, adding that the consequences of this step would rest with the European Union, Caliber.Az reports.

He stressed that the EU’s irresponsible action of levelling an unfounded accusation of terrorism against the “sacred” IRGC—taken in compliance with the orders of the US president and the leaders of the Zionist regime—had accelerated Europe’s slide toward irrelevance in the future global order.

“The Europeans, by trying to strike the IRGC—which has been the biggest barrier to the spread of terrorism to Europe—have in fact shot themselves in the foot and once again, through blind obedience to the Americans, made decisions against the interests of their own people,”  Ghalibaf warned.

He added that the IRGC stands as the world’s most distinctive counterterrorism force, highlighting that, with local support, it overthrew Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), neutralised the group’s global threat, and, in combating international terrorism, sacrificed hundreds of martyrs, including one of its most prominent and experienced commanders, Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.

By Jeyhun Aghazada