Council of the EU designates Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, triggering EU-wide asset freezes and funding bans under its counterterrorism sanctions regime

As a result, the EU terrorist list now covers 13 individuals and 23 groups/entities. The listing falls under the EU’s autonomous counterterrorism sanctions regime (Common Position 2001/931/CFSP), which operates separately from the EU framework implementing UN sanctions against Al-Qaida and ISIL/Da’esh, while allowing the EU to independently target organisations involved in terrorism…