FM Katz urges UK, German counterparts to designate Revolutionary Guard a terror group

17 April 2024, 12:31 pm Edit

Foreign Minister Israel Katz (r) meets with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock in Jerusalem on April 17, 2024 (Sivan Shahor/GPO)

Foreign Minister Israel Katz meets with his visiting British and German counterparts and urges them to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror group in the wake of Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone strike on Israel.

“Iran and its proxies endanger regional and global stability. Now we have an opportunity to curb Iran,” Katz is quoted by his office as telling David Cameron and Annalena Baerbock.

“It’s time to call the Revolutionary Guards by their real name – a terrorist organization – and impose painful sanctions on Iran’s missile project,” Katz says.

The US designated the IRGC a terror group in 2019 and Israel has been pushing for other nations and the EU to follow.