Iran: EU Finally Designates the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization

Karl Sexton : Jan 29, 2026
DW.com

[DW.com] EU foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist" group, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said. ... "This was long overdue," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said, praising the decision. "'Terrorist' is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own people's protests in blood," von der Leyen added. ... The IRGC is the ideological branch of Tehran's security forces. It was created after the 1979 revolution to protect the clerical leadership and uphold the regime's Shia Islamist ideology and the principles... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via YouTube)