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Posted on January 29, 2026
1 min readLast updated: January 29, 2026
The EU plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorists, with new sanctions expected, according to Kaja Kallas.
(Corrects day of the week in first paragraph)
BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The European Union will most likely include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on its list of terrorist organisations, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday ahead of a foreign affairs ministers council.
"We are putting new sanctions on Iran and I also expect we will list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist list," she said.
(Reporting by Lili Bayer and Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Inti Landauro)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a branch of Iran's Armed Forces, established after the 1979 Iranian Revolution to protect the country's Islamic Republic system.
The European Union's foreign policy is a set of strategies and actions taken by the EU to promote its interests and values internationally, including diplomacy and sanctions.
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