{"id":445569,"date":"2026-02-19T15:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/02\/19\/iran-ufficializzato-linserimento-dei-guardiani-della-rivoluzione-nella-lista-dei-terroristi-ue\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:47:25","slug":"iran-revolutionary-guards-officially-added-to-eu-terrorist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/02\/19\/iran-revolutionary-guards-officially-added-to-eu-terrorist-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Revolutionary Guards officially added to EU terrorist list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; The <strong>Council of the European Union<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2026\/02\/19\/eu-terrorist-list-council-designates-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-as-a-terrorist-organisation\/?utm_source=brevo&amp;utm_campaign=AUTOMATED%20-%20Alert%20-%20Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_id=3318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officially added<\/a> Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)\u2014the military force tasked with defending and protecting the ideology and security of the Islamic Republic regime\u2014to the <strong>EU list of terrorist groups<\/strong>. Under the EU&#8217;s anti-terrorism sanctions regime, the militia will be subject to a series of restrictive measures. In particular, all <strong>economic resources<\/strong> and <strong>financial assets<\/strong> of the paramilitary group present in Member States will be <strong>frozen<\/strong>, and EU operators will be strictly prohibited from providing funds to members of the militia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The formal decision\u2014made official today (19 February)\u2014follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/01\/29\/iran-eu-to-list-revolutionary-guards-as-terrorist-organisation\/\">political agreement<\/a> reached at the <strong>Foreign Affairs Council<\/strong> on 29 January and comes in response to the violence perpetrated by the IRGC, which led to the deaths of <strong>more than 30,000 civilians&nbsp;<\/strong>during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/01\/13\/protests-in-iran-victims-of-the-regime-could-number-in-the-thousands-von-der-leyen-terrifying-new-sanctions-coming-soon\/\">mass protests<\/a> that swept across the country between<b> December 2025 and January 2026<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision follows the political agreement reached by the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 29 January, after the widespread violence that led to the deaths of more than 30,000 civilians during protests in recent months in Tehran and other major cities across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":442882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774],"tags":[27072,33108,27569,25804,26650,27073],"class_list":["post-445569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","tag-council-ue-en","tag-guardiani-della-rivoluzione","tag-iran-in-2","tag-sanctionsin","tag-protesterand","tag-terrorism-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445570,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445569\/revisions\/445570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}