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Ministers under pressure to pass ban but some fear it could lead to collapse of nuclear talks

The executions are Tehran's main response to protests that have swept the country since September, and are seen as a sign that Iran's clerical leadership intends to continue a violent crackdown.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to blacklist Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and to sanction the Iranian leadership.

On January 19, the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the Iranian regime’s crackdown on the nationwide uprising and calling for the

EU must think about negative consequences of this emotional behaviour, says Iranian FM

Bloc is working on listing Tehran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organization

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: The long overdue disbanding and designating of the IRGC is the Iranian people’s urgent demand, indispensable to regional peace, and a

Action comes ‘in the light of its terrorist activity, repression of protesters’

Iran condemned Thursday a European Parliament call to blacklist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group, which would pave the way for sanctions against the powerful military force.

"We will adopt the fourth package of sanctions against Iran on Monday and we believe we should already start working on the fifth one to list IRGC as a terrorist organisation," said one of the sources, an EU diplomat. The IRGC was set up shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to protect the Shi’ite clerical ruling system and provide a counterweight to the regular armed forces.