The EU has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, ending years of division over the issue in response to the regime’s brutal repression of protesters. The listings included Iran’s minister of the interior, Eskandar Momeni, and several IRGC commanders, senior police and law enforcement officers, an EU statement said. On Thursday, Tehran’s top diplomat criticised the EU’s decision to designate the IRGC a terrorist organisation as a “major strategic mistake”. In a post on X, Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, wrote: “Several countries are presently attempting to avert the eruption of all-out war in our region. It was listed a terrorist organisation by the US in 2019 during the first Trump administration, by Canada in 2024, and by Australia in 2025.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2026 18:22 UTC