Western authorities always bow to intimidation. They’re remarkably easy marks.
Note also that terminally woke Reuters fastidiously refrains from calling the group by its actual name, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Reuters wants to distinguish Islam from terrorism as much as possible, even to the point of refusing to call an avowedly Islamic group what it calls itself.
“Iran’s parliament to label European militaries as ‘terror organizations,'” by Sam Halpern, Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2023:
Iran will recognize the armies of the European countries operating in the region as terrorist organizations, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran’s Islamic Council, declared during a meeting of the country’s legislature on Sunday, according to the state-affiliated Tasnim media outlet.
“We identify the armies of European countries in the region as terrorist groups and organizations, and we will take the necessary measures to deal with them,” Ghalibaf reportedly said.
“EU agrees new Iran sanctions, won’t label Guards as ‘terrorist’ for now,” by Bart H. Meijer and Ingrid Melander, Reuters, January 23, 2023:
BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The European Union on Monday introduced new sanctions against Iran for a “brutal” crackdown on protests, but the bloc’s top diplomat said the country’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) cannot be listed as a terrorist group without a court decision.
Relations between the 27-nation EU and Tehran have deteriorated during stalled efforts to revive talks on its nuclear programme, worsening further as Iran has moved to detain several European nationals.
The bloc has also become increasingly critical of the continuing violent treatment of domestic protesters, including executions, and the transfer of Iranian drones to Russia.
Sweden, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said the bloc’s foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday “adopted a new package of sanctions against Iran, targeting those driving the repression.”
“The EU strongly condemns the brutal and disproportionate use of force by the Iranian authorities against peaceful protesters,” said Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom, according to a Twitter post by the country’s EU diplomatic mission.
EU diplomats told Reuters last week the bloc was set to add 37 names to a blacklist of Iranian people and entities banned from travelling to Europe and subject to an asset freeze.
The European Parliament has called on the EU to go further and list the IRGC as a terrorist entity, blaming it for the clampdown on protests now into their fourth month and the supply of drones for Russia’s war against Ukraine….
tim gallagher says
Well, if what is required is a court decision, as the diplomat mentioned in the report mentions, then get on with getting a court decision and then the EU can show some courage and label the Iranian Guards as a terrorist group. It’ll probably never happen.
wpm says
F**k the EU F**k(unelected Euro trash) the Devo,s crowd that wants us to be freezing in the winter and eat bugs in our daily diet, F**k Joe Biden, F**K the western Islamic progressive boot licking crowd ,F**k the goose stepping fem boy in the picture above and his molesting underage boys in press uniforms ,Islamic trash that will spend the after life roast on a open fire .Cowards all that depend on weak leaders in the west to get their way !
James Lincoln says
wpm,
I think that you’d better order “a double” right now.
Fact is, I feel the same way…
wpm says
Thanks the idiots running the show are more to blame then Jihadist in my humble opinion. Jihadist are doing what they said they want to do and what their religion, warped crazy cult it is ,spells out to do. These appeasing “D-bags” that at this time run the western world could give a rat,s ass about the common people who elected them ,pay taxes, work real jobs ,and only want the world to be a safe place for their children ..
somehistory says
If an individual makes a threat, he’s arrested and charged. Hear mozlums or mozlum-ruled nations threaten, and they get what they want. Works every time.
erdogan threatens…”more illegal mozlums will flood your nations if you don’t cough up some dough.”..mozlum hordes stream in to most of the nations of Europe.
iran threatens to keep on building and using their nuclear war machine if not allowed to keep on building their nuclear war machine and having it funded by the West, specifically U.S. taxpayers. Bundles of cash just keep on flowing to those thugs in charge.
Now, threats have worked again to some degree. How long with the sanctions last? Which companies and nations will be allowed to keep on doing business with the thugs?
Raja says
Somehistory,
Yes, threat works and it works well in modern world, wherever islam is dominant or wherever the left and islam have bonhomie. These are hard realities of our times, but when islam is eradicated things might start changing for better.
gravenimage says
After Iranian threats, EU backs down on labeling Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as terrorist
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Just appalling kowtowing to threats–caving to a threat does not prove that the threatener is not terrorist–just the opposite, really. Appeasement does not work.
Deodata says
OMG, how much evidence do they need? For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
(Simon Weisenthal)
OLD GUY says
The EU and the west basically looked the other way with HITLER until it was too late and WWII took place at a great cost of lives. Islam and Islamic murder and violence are not going to just go away if you’r nice to them.