EU's Kallas: We expect to list Iran's revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization


FILE PHOTO: European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice-President Kaja Kallas addresses the European Parliament plenary on territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, in Strasbourg, France January 20, 2026. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

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 Friday ‌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)

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