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Iran’s ambassador to Vienna has slammed a recent set of sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iranian officials and lawmakers, saying the bans run counter to international regulations.
A German diplomat has stated that there is no legal basis for blacklisting Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist entity", echoing earlier remarks by the European Union's foreign policy chief.
The European Union Council has agreed to impose further sanctions on a number of Iranian individuals and organizations over alleged human rights violations.
The language of threat doesn’t work with the Iranian government, the Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna said in reaction to EU's Foreign Policy Chief Joseph Borrell's anti-Tehran remarks.
An Iranian lawmaker says a double urgent bill is ready for discussion at parliament in response to any move by the EU to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has in a statement announced sanctions against some individuals and entities in France and Britain as well as some European lawmakers.
An Iranian lawmaker has said the Islamic republic of Iran has put on the table leaving the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, NPT, and expelling the UN atomic watchdog’s inspectors from the country as a response to the recent draft resolution of the European parliament against the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
Iran has strongly condemned a move by the European Union and Britain to impose sanctions on some Iranian real and legal persons, saying Tehran will soon announce its own bans against the Europeans.
The European Union cannot list the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist entity until an EU court has determined that the elite forces are, Josep Borrell the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Monday.
The Iranian intelligence ministry has in a statement condemned the recent draft resolution of the European parliament against Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has not ruled out the possibility of Tehran’s withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) if the Europeans fail to revise their “belligerent polices” toward the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian daily close to the Principlist camp urges the government to suspend ties with the European countries that support the designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), as the main organ of the Iranian military, as a “terrorist” entity.
An Iranian lawmaker proposes that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which is tasked with providing security in the Hormuz Strait, levy tolls on the European vessels seeking to pass through the strategic waterway.
The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warns the Europeans against blacklisting the elite military force, saying they will have to take responsibility for the consequences if they make such a “mistake.”
A political expert says mere condemnations and emotional reactions to the European Parliament’s call for Europe to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) will not be of any help, but Tehran needs instead to find ways to decrease tensions with the Europeans.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf delivers a stern warning to the European Union over a possible move to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), saying Europe will “pay the price in full” if it makes such a move.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian armed forces has warned in a statement that the recent move by the European parliament to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a terrorist organization sets a negative precedent and will adversely affect regional and global peace and security.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian held a phone conversation with the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs in the wake of the adoption of an “interventionist and unconventional” draft resolution by the European Parliament against the Islamic Republic.
An ex-Iranian lawmaker warns that a possible escalation of tensions with the Europeans could push them to refer Tehran’s nuclear case back to the UN Security Council, criticizing incumbent Foreign Ministry officials for what he describes as inaction in the face of the increasing frictions.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has imposed fresh round of sanctions on several European Union (EU) and British officials and institutions for “their support for and instigation of riots in the country.”
The spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry has strongly condemned the new sanctions of the European Union and the UK against some Iranian individuals and institutions, vowing proportionate response.
