{"id":57068,"date":"2026-02-03T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iran-summons-eu-states-ambassadors-over-irgc-s-terror-designation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:16:12","slug":"iran-summons-eu-states-ambassadors-over-irgc-s-terror-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iran-summons-eu-states-ambassadors-over-irgc-s-terror-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran summons EU states&#8217; ambassadors over IRGC&#8217;s terror designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said the EU states&#8217; envoys were called in by Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi and the relevant director generals at the ministry, describing the bloc&#8217;s labeling of the IRGC as &#8220;a strategic mistake and an unforgivable insult&#8221; to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the EU members&#8217; ambassadors gave the assurance that they will relay Iran&#8217;s protest to their governments as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The EU decided last week to add the IRGC to the bloc&#8217;s terrorist list.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday the European ambassadors had been summoned by the ministry on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday his country considers EU militaries &#8220;terrorist groups&#8221; in response to the bloc&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-101573 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg\" alt=\"Iran&#039;s Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the European Union (EU)&#039;s member states in strong protest to the bloc&#039;s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the European Union (EU)&#8217;s member states in strong protest to the bloc&#8217;s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000101574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000101574,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/thumbs_b_c_b77517cd9a0927959e6e7e6c03e54769.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000101574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57068"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57068"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}