nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230203-113242-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230202s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230203-113242-0 doi eng 342 23 Grischek, Friederike Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-2131-9355 Why Declaring the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Group is a Trickier Business Than One May Think Grischek, Friederike Verfassungsblog 2023-02-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The EU did not follow the European Parliament’s call to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group on the EU’s recent sanctions list. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, justified this decision with the lack of a court decision finding that the IRGC is indeed a terrorist group. Is an EU court decision a pre-condition for sanctioning terrorist groups? Not necessarily. Nevertheless, Borrell does have a point. CC BY-SA 4.0 Iran Josep Borrell Revolutionary Guards Sanctions Terrorism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/why-declaring-the-iranian-revolutionary-guards-a-terrorist-group-is-a-trickier-business-than-one-may-think/ raw object