Over 100 US Congress Members Ask EU To Designate IRGC As Terrorist Organisation

At least 130 members of the US Congress have urged the European Union to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation. The members of the US Congress said that IRGC has carried out plots to target EU citizens.

In a letter to the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, the US Congress members referred to the findings of a study that shows that in the last five years, Iran has organised at least 33 cases of conspiracy to kidnap and assassinate EU citizens in Europe or to spy on them.

The letter of the Democratic and Republican members of the US House of Representatives stated that "Iran is still a country that supports terrorism. For decades, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has freely and openly plotted to target citizens of countries across the European Union”.

The United States designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organisation on April 15, 2019, and recently the European Parliament voted for a proposal that asks the European Union to add the IRGC and its affiliates to the EU's terrorist list.