EU confirms it will designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization

By Reuters 29 January 2026, 5:10 pm

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, arrives at a graduation ceremony of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, May 20, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

European Union foreign ministers have agreed to add Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations, European Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas writes on social media platform X.

“EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,” Kallas says.