Iran brands EU armies terrorist groups after Revolutionary Guards’ terror label

Iran considers as "terrorist groups" the armies of EU countries ‍that listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the bloc's ​list of terrorist organisations, the Speaker of the Iranian ‌parliament said on Sunday (February 1, 2026).

The European Union marked ​a symbolic shift in its approach to Iran's leadership on Thursday (January 29) by designating the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, following what turned out to be the Islamic Republic's bloodiest crackdown of protests since its establishment in 1979.

"By trying to hit the Revolutionary Guards... the Europeans actually ​shot themselves in the foot and once ⁠again made a decision against the interests of their people by blindly obeying the Americans," the Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, told his fellow lawmakers, ​who all wore Revolutionary ⁠Guards uniforms in support of the elite force.