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Iran declares European militaries as ‘terrorist groups’ after EU listing of IRGC
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran has declared European countries’ armies “terrorist groups,” the parliament speaker says, following the EU’s decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Dressed in a Guards uniform in a show of solidarity, speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that under “Article 7 of the Law on Countermeasures Against the Declaration of the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization, the armies of European countries are considered terrorist groups.”
It remains unclear what immediate impact the decision would have.
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