EU member states have reached a political agreement to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization,” the bloc’s foreign policy chief said on Thursday.

“Repression cannot go unanswered. EU foreign ministers have just taken the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation,” said Kaja Kallas, writing on the U.S. social media platform X, The Caspian Post reports.

Iran’s security forces are responsible for mass killings.

Today, we are imposing new sanctions on those directly responsible for the violent crackdown on protests that has killed thousands.

I also expect that Foreign Ministers will take a political decision for the EU to… pic.twitter.com/P6Rj1bM3HR

— Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas) January 29, 2026

Her comments came as foreign ministers from European Union member states were meeting in Brussels for talks.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, also welcomed the political agreement, calling it “long overdue.”

“Terrorist is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own people’s protests in blood,” she wrote on X, adding that Europe stands with the people of Iran “in their brave fight for freedom.”

I welcome the political agreement on new sanctions against the murderous Iranian regime

And on the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.

This was long overdue.

« Terrorist » is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own…

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 29, 2026