Iran Criticizes European Parliament for Revolutionary Guards Terror Label

FILE - Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in East Azerbaijan province, Iran, Oct. 17, 2022.

Iran on Thursday criticized a vote in the European Parliament to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terror group.

Iran’s foreign ministry said Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian called the vote inappropriate and incorrect in a phone call Thursday with EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell.

The Iranian criticism came a day after a non-binding vote in the European Parliament that condemned the IRGC for cracking down on protesters and supplying drones to Russian forces in Ukraine.

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EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss adding new sanctions on Iran next week.

Some information for this report came from Agence France-Presse and Reuters.