EU assembly wants Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terror list

The European Parliament on Thursday called for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be put on the European Union’s terrorist list (Jean-Francois Badias/AP/PA)

The European Parliament on Thursday called for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be put on the European Union’s terrorist list and insisted that sanctions targeting Tehran had to be expanded after the violent suppression of protests.

In a nonbinding resolution, the legislature mustered a large majority to call on the EU’s 27 member states for such punitive action to counter what it sees as a swift backsliding of human rights in Iran.