Khaberni - The current situation in Iran has ignited a debate within the European Union about the possibility of classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a "terrorist organization.".
A German government spokesperson in Berlin stated on Monday that Germany is working hard to reach a consensus on this measure.
He added: "We support including the Revolutionary Guard under the European Union's anti-terrorism sanctions regime."
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the European Commission mentioned that listing the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization would primarily be a symbolic step.
He noted that this is because the Revolutionary Guard is already subject to sanctions by the European Union for reasons including preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
The spokesperson highlighted that, based on this, decisions to freeze all assets of the Guard present in the European Union and ban providing any economic resources to it have been in place for a long time.
The European Union has been discussing this potential classification for years, but many member states had reservations until recently, and since such a decision requires consensus, it had been impossible to make previously.
According to an analysis conducted by the legal department in the Council of the European Union, a ruling by the Higher Regional Court in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 2023 could serve as a legal basis for this listing.
The court ruling had confirmed the involvement of an Iranian governmental entity in instructing an attempted arson attack on a Jewish synagogue in the city of Bochum, Germany.
At that time, a German citizen of Iranian origin was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for conspiracy to commit arson.
Prior to the analysis conducted by the legal department in the Council of the European Union on this judgment, body entities of the European conglomerate always affirmed that including these elite forces on the terrorism lists was not legally possible because it requires a national judicial ruling or a ban decision issued by an administrative authority.
There were also previous reservations stemming from concerns about the negative impact this classification might have on negotiations related to the Iranian nuclear program.
Since late December 2025, Iran has been witnessing a wave of protests that started quietly in Tehran and then spread to other cities, based on the deterioration of economic conditions and the decline in the value of the Iranian rial against the dollar, which soon turned into acts of violence and an "internal terrorism war" incited and led by external parties, according to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
