The European Union has added Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its terrorist list in response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters in recent weeks.
The bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said EU foreign ministers took the "decisive step" because "repression cannot go unanswered".
She said ahead of the decision that the move would put the IRGC - a major military, economic and political force in Iran - on the same level as jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
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European Union foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to include Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, putting the IRGC in a category similar to that of ISIS and al Qaeda and marking a symbolic shift in Europe’s approach to Iran’s leadership.
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