Accessibility links

Breaking News

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.
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.

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.

  • 16x9 Image

    VOA News

    The Voice of America provides news and information in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of over 326 million people. Stories with the VOA News byline are the work of multiple VOA journalists and may contain information from wire service reports.

Special Report

XS
SM
MD
LG