(MENAFN) On Wednesday, the European Parliament demanded that the European Union and its member nations formally identify Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group. The request was incorporated into a change to the group's report on the common security and foreign policy.
According to Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers, whose Conservatives and Reformists party presented the IRGC amendment, 598 of the 638 MEPs who participated in the voting supported it. Only nine MEPs abstained, while 31 did not vote.
The paper "calls for the EU and its Member States to include the IRGC on the EU terrorist list," while being non-binding. The writers of the amendment charged "terrorist activity" as well as "repression of protesters" and "supplying of drones to Russia" by the elite wing of the Iranian armed forces.
While European Union Commission Chair Ursula von der Leyen has previously endorsed the concept, neither Brussels nor any of the capitals of European Union members have yet replied to the appeal. Speaking to reporters on the margins of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski town of Davos, she charged Iran with a "atrocious and horrible" crackdown on "fundamental human rights" at home.
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