{"id":303740,"date":"2026-02-22T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303740\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:09:11","slug":"iran-designates-eu-navy-air-forces-as-terrorist-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303740\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran designates EU navy, air forces as \u2018terrorist\u2019 organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq &#8211; Iran on Saturday designated the navy and air forces of EU member states \u201cterrorist\u201d organizations, after the European bloc designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in late January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Iranian foreign ministry announced the designation in a statement, saying that the measure is based on its reciprocal action law adopted in 2019, which states that any country that supports the US in designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization shall be subjected to reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Accordingly, Tehran \u201cconsiders the navy and air force of all member states of the European Union to be subject to the aforementioned law and its provisions.. and therefore, within the framework of reciprocity, recognizes and declares them as terrorist organizations,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The EU designated the IRGC in late January, citing \u201cserious human rights violations in Iran,\u201d amid the repression of mass protests and Tehran\u2019s continued military backing of Russia in its war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Following the EU designation, Iran\u2019s General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran accused the bloc of taking the measure with \u201ccomplete shamelessness and brazenness\u201d to satisfy US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the EU measure as a \u201cmajor strategic mistake,\u201d in late January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq &#8211; Iran on Saturday designated the navy and air forces of EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-303740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}