MEPs demand that Iran's Revolutionary Guards be placed on a blacklist.
The European Parliament has demanded that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) be placed on a European blacklist; some western politicians worry that this could make Iran withdraw from negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
Although the parliament merely serves as a consultative body, EU foreign ministers are scheduled to gather on Monday to discuss more penalties, and the Iranian diaspora has made the IRGC's banishment its top priority.
Iran's original answer said that if the IRGC were to be prohibited, it would label EU armies as terrorist organisations. During a phone conversation with Josep Borrell, the head of the EU's foreign policy, the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, referred to the IRGC as a security-creating entity.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, broke
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