Iranian opposition figures call for designation of IRGC terror group as a terrorist group
In a joint message, prominent opponents of the Islamic Republic urged the international community to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
In a tweet posted by exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi, football legend Ali Karimi, British-Iranian actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi, journalist and activist Masih Alinejad and actress Golshifteh Farahani, they said: “Our request to the international community is clear: put the IRGC on the terrorist list.
“For more than four decades, the IRGC has terrorized and killed civilians inside and outside Iran,” said the five prominent opposition figures said in their joint tweet.
Meanwhile, Iranians in the diaspora in Europe are gathering in Strasbourg, France, on Monday outside the European Parliament to call on European Union governments to include the IRGC in the list of terrorist groups.
Videos sent to Iran International show that Iranians opposed to the Islamic Republic who live in different European cities are move towards Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament.
Meanwhile, the Association of Families of Victims of Flight PS752, in a statement, supported the European Union’s request to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization and said that this organization is terrorist and should be recognized as such by the community. international.
On January 8, 2020, the IRGC fired two missiles at a Ukrainian plane taking off from Tehran, killing all of its 176 passengers and crew.