D the recording of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guards being added to the EU terror list is entirely welcome. The listing isolates the Islamist regime even more and will – hopefully – go some way towards its end. It is a signal to the demonstrators in the country, who are being murdered en masse by the troops and their henchmen, as well as to the Iranian exile community, which is spied on and threatened by the agents and their henchmen.
The Revolutionary Guards were founded shortly after the Islamist revolution in 1979to spread the idea of revolution internally and externally. They are a state within a state, an elite military force with its own army, navy and air force, have been growing for years, are closely linked to the economy and dominate in key industries.
With the current inclusion on the EU terror list, which after 11. September 2001 was introduced, sanctions apply to affiliated companies and entry bans for members of the organization, whose assets can also be frozen. The police and judiciary have more powers. Support can also be punished. The break with the Revolutionary Guards is therefore a final break with the Iranian regime.
The step was overdue. It comes at a time when the “Islamic Republic” seems to be nearing its end anyway. For far too long, diplomatic coordination between the EU states has delayed decisive action against the terrorist regime. This foreign policy disunity in Europe is dramatic in times when pre-fascism rules in Washington.
Dozens of attacks in Europe
Many people in Iran had relied on Trump’s promises that the US would intervene if the regime started killing. A tragic mistake. Regime henchmen have killed thousands in recent weeks and the world was watching – the USA as well as Europe.
The listing should have happened years ago – at the latest to meet the feminist “Women life freedom“To support protests since September 2022. The EU Parliament called for this in January 2023. In the same month, the Green Party at the time did so Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock adopted this position as part of the German government line for the first time.
Baerbock broke with an overly understanding attitude towards Tehran that still prevails in some rooms at the Foreign Office, but also among some Middle East experts who wanted to keep the channels for diplomacy open. It broke with the years of German appeasement policy towards Islam fascism Above all, social democrats actually sought proximity to the mullahs and thereby strengthened the regime instead of bringing about a supposed “change through trade”..
An earlier reaction by the EU would also have been in its own security interests. The Revolutionary Guards coordinate with the Al-Quds Unit, its elite foreign force, the terror of recruited criminals and agents, of Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis against Israel, against Jews and against regime opponents worldwide. The Revolutionary Guards are responsible for dozens of assassinations, attacks and attempted attacks as well as espionage cases in Europe.
In Germany, for example, in November 2022 for an attempted arson attack on the synagogue in Bochum. The list of cases is long and goes back decades. The fact that the EU did nothing against the Revolutionary Guards for so long almost seemed like an invitation. Let us now hope that the listing at least accelerates the fall of the mullahs.