Chants against both the United States and the Jewish state took place during a parliamentary session in Tehran, where Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf led legislators in slogans following a vote to designate the armed forces of European Union member states as “terrorist groups” in retaliation for the EU’s decision on Thursday to blacklist the IRGC, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
The coordinated display, broadcast Sunday, marked a unified public allegiance to the IRGC by Iran’s top elected officials. During the session, an IRGC flag was raised and a banner reading “The Revolutionary Guard is the largest ‘anti-terrorism’ organization in the world” was displayed at the Speaker’s podium, as shown in video footage from the chamber.
“I hereby declare that, according to Article 7 of the Retaliatory Action Law, in response to the declaration of the IRGC as a terrorist organization, the armies of European countries are [now] considered terrorist groups and the consequences of this action will be the responsibility of the European Union,” Ghalibaf declared. Ghalibaf accused European governments of acting “through blind obedience to the Americans,” saying they had “once again decided against the interests of their own people” by moving against the IRGC. (Read More)
