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It's a move that's been considered for many years, but the recent deadly crackdown by the Iranian regime on anti-government protesters brought all 27 EU governments into alignment in declaring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaya Kallis led the meeting of foreign ministers who made the decision.
When the atrocities were clear, then also it was clear that there has to be a very strong response from the European side.
The designation freezes all bank accounts of the IRGC held in the EU, criminalizes any interaction with the group, and bans its members from entering the bloc.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
It's a move that's been considered for many years, but the recent deadly crackdown by the Iranian regime on anti-government protesters brought all 27 EU governments into alignment in declaring the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaya Kallis led the meeting of foreign ministers who made the decision.
When the atrocities were clear, then also it was clear that there has to be a very strong response from the European side.
The designation freezes all bank accounts of the IRGC held in the EU, criminalizes any interaction with the group, and bans its members from entering the bloc.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
It's been a very, very difficult time, Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksson told journalists as she met her Greenlandic counterpart Jens Frederik Nielsen in his country's capital after days of drama with the U.S.
over Trump's threats to take over the island.
It's a serious situation we're in.
Everyone can see that, she said.
Now there's a diplomatic political track that we're going to pursue and we need to prepare it.
Fredriksson didn't share what she learned from NATO chief Mark Rutte, the man who negotiated what's being called a framework for an agreement with Trump.
Nielsen said Thursday he hadn't yet been given any details.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
We really don't know the details yet, and I've been scanning Danish media this morning, and there are a lot of questions being raised there.