BRUSSELS:The European Union has listed Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc’s top diplomat said in a post on X on Thursday.

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said that foreign ministers unanimously agreed on the designation. “Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise,” she said.

“This will put them on the same footing with al-Qaida, Hamas, Daesh,” Kallas said earlier Thursday, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. “If you act as a terroris