Shona Murray: EU’s doublethink on Israel undermines its stance on Iranian terror

The EU's response to Iran's repression of its citizens bears a striking contrast to the bloc's actions against Israel over its genocide in Palestine, writes Shona Murray

Women cross a street in Tehran under a huge banner showing hands firmly holding Iranian flags as a sign of patriotism, as one of them flashes the victory sign. Picture: Vahid Salemi/AP

After deliberating for the last few weeks, the EU moved fairly fast to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — the ideological armed forces pivotal for much of the ongoing state repression of Iranian civilians — a terrorist organisation.

“This will place them on the same level as Al-Qaeda, Hamas or Daesh. If you act like terrorists, you must be treated as such,” the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told journalists ahead of a meeting of Foreign Affairs ministers in Brussels on Thursday.