ISLAMABAD: Iran has declared European countries' armies "terrorist groups," the parliament speaker said Sunday, following the EU's decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, AFP reported on Sunday.
Dressed in a Guards uniform in a show of solidarity, speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that under "Article 7 of the Law on Countermeasures Against the Declaration of the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization, the armies of European countries are considered terrorist groups."
It remained unclear what immediate impact the decision would have.
‘Shameful and irresponsible’
According to an Iranian state-run Press TV report published on Friday, Iran’s Army has condemned the European Union’s move to add the country’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps to its so-called terrorist list as “shameful” and “irresponsible.”
“This hostile action … adds another stain of shame to the black record of European colonialists," the Iranian Army said in a statement on Friday.
Move aimed to ‘please US president’
The statement noted that the action comes as “today’s Europe is divided” and “doesn’t play an important role in the current international system,” adding that the move aims to please US President Donald Trump and gain his support in resolving Europe’s problems, including the war in Ukraine, the issue of Greenland -- which Trump wants to take over -- and the weakening of NATO.
According to another Press TV report, Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani, also quoted the same domestic law, saying the country considers the armed forces of European Union countries that have blacklisted the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as “terrorist organizations.”
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