Today, Thursday, January 19, representatives of the European Parliament approved a 32-point resolution condemning the suppression of protests in Iran, and placing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist groups.
This resolution also called for an end to executions carried out by the Iranian authorities, and for the imposition of sanctions on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and their families.
Today, Thursday, the European Parliament meeting was held to review and vote on the draft resolution condemning the execution and suppression of demonstrators by the Iranian regime, and calling on the Council of the European Union to include the Revolutionary Guards in the list of terrorist groups.
Prior to that, and on the eve of the European Parliament’s approval of the resolution requesting the European Union to recognize the Guard as a terrorist organization, Iran expressed its deep concern that approving such a resolution would have “negative consequences.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, said in a telephone conversation with the European Union’s foreign policy coordinator, Joseph Borrell, on Wednesday evening, that the request to include the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the list of terrorist groups, in the European Parliament’s decision, which was voted in favor on Wednesday, was “An emotional approach and ill-conceived and misguided behavior.”
On Wednesday, January 18, the majority of European Parliament representatives voted in favor of including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the list of terrorist groups.
According to the vote in the European Parliament, out of 638 deputies present, 598 voted in favor of including the issue of designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization in the resolution. Only 9 members voted against it and 31 abstained in the European Parliament.
