Iran summons European ambassadors after Guards proscribed as 'terrorists'

• Iran summons EU ambassadors after bloc designates Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.

Iran said Monday it had summoned European ambassadors stationed in Tehran after the EU's designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group.

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On Sunday and Monday, "representatives of all EU member states that have an embassy in Tehran were summoned to the foreign ministry", foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said.

"This is the smallest of measures" before other moves are announced, Baqaei told a foreign ministry press briefing that AFP journalists attended.

"Terrorist list"

Last Thursday, EU foreign ministers agreed to put Iran's Revolutionary Guards on the bloc's "terrorist list" after a deadly crackdown on mass protests, the EU's foreign policy chief said.

"If you act as a terrorist, you should also be treated as terrorists," top diplomat Kaja Kallas told journalists ahead of the ministers' meeting in Brussels.

She said the step puts the Revolutionary Guards on the same level as jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.

Iranian Mp's respond 

Yesterday, Iran declared European countries' armies "terrorist groups", the parliament speaker said Sunday, as a response to the EU's decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Dressed in a Guards uniform in a show of solidarity, speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that under "Article 7 of the Law on Countermeasures Against the Declaration of the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization, the armies of European countries are considered terrorist groups".