European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers on June 23, 2025.

The European Union, in a political, illegal and unjustified move, has classified Iran`s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), a legitimate military institution, as a so-called terrorist organization.

"EU foreign ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran`s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote in a message on X on Thursday.

The move is rushed, contrary to legal procedures in the EU, and carried out solely for political reasons. Under EU regulations, the bloc cannot designate an organization as a terrorist entity without a court ruling from a member state.

However, EU member states in a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Thursday took the ill-considered action without regard to the consequences and merely to please the United States and Israel.

Iran had previously warned against European anti-Iranian moves, especially against the IRGC. Officials have emphasized that the IRGC is a legitimate military institution and warned that any action against it is illegal and a clear violation of the United Nations Charter.

Ismaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran`s Foreign Ministry, had warned that labelling part of a country`s official armed forces is "not only against fundamental principles of international law, but also logically and politically very ill-considered and fraught with consequences."

According to Baghaei, simply labelling an institution "that emerges from the Iranian people and is responsible for protecting the nation and the security of the Persian Gulf is a petty and illogical act," and that Iran reserves the right to respond reciprocally.