After the recent crime against Israeli targets that Iran is suspected of being behind, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson now wants Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be labeled a terrorist by the EU.
– This is a really dangerous cocktail, which we have to do something about, and I think the time is now, says Kristerson to Expressen.
The announcement comes before a meeting of the European Council next week, where the EU’s political direction and priorities are high on the agenda.
– We want Sweden to seriously address with the other EU countries the incredibly problematic connection between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, their destructive role in the region but also their escalating actions around various European countries, of which Sweden is one of them, says Ulf Kristersson.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC has been labeled a terrorist by the United States since 2019. In early 2023, the European Parliament called for the same.
The text is updated