Overview
- Parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf announced that, under Iran’s 2019 Reciprocal Measures law passed after the U.S. listed the IRGC, EU member-state militaries will be treated as terrorist groups.
- Qalibaf directed the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission to move to designate EU countries’ military attachés in Iran as terrorists, according to Tasnim.
- The declaration answers last week’s EU decision to add Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its terrorism list over protest repression, with officials citing 3,117 deaths and the NGO HRANA reporting 6,713.
- Lawmakers underscored the move’s domestic symbolism by wearing IRGC uniforms in a televised session and chanting slogans against the United States, Israel, and Europe.
- Initial reporting indicates no concrete near-term effect on EU militaries, though the step heightens diplomatic tensions and could complicate future political and economic ties.