Addressing a meeting of high-ranking officials of the Judiciary in Tehran on Monday, Raeisi said like other evil acts by Washington, the possible move to label the IRGC as a \u201cterrorist group\u201d\u00a0is doomed to failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cA country, which has nothing in its record\u00a0but arming, leading and granting refuge to terrorist currents, regards as terrorist the official armed force of another country that has always been the pioneer in helping people and defending Islamic movements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough this (possible) measure would have no political or legal value for governments and nations of the world\u2026 it would be proper\u00a0that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and\u00a0the Supreme National Security Council counteract it,\u201d the Judiciary chief went on to say.<\/p>\n
The administration of US President Donald Trump is expected to designate the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization as early as next week, according to a US official.<\/p>\n
The designation decision, formally under the State Department’s purview, has been made as part of the White House’s increasingly aggressive strategy towards Iran.<\/p>\n
The US has already blacklisted dozens of entities and individuals affiliated with the IRGC, but not the entire force.<\/p>\n
The IRGC, which has roughly 125,000 military personnel and enjoys growing public support, is also actively cooperating in construction, infrastructure and relief projects.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the majority of Iranian lawmakers expressed their full support for the country\u2019s Armed Forces, particularly the IRGC, pledging to respond in kind to any action taken by the US against the elite force.<\/p>\n
In a statement read out at the Iranian Parliament, 255 lawmakers emphasized that the security of Iran and its Armed Forces are major red lines for the country\u2019s parliamentarians.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn case of any measure by the US president or any other institution against the IRGC, we will start a double-urgency reciprocal measure, which will make the US leaders, who have been behind the formation of terrorist groups in the region and supported them, regret their stupid move,” the Iranian lawmakers\u2019 statement said.<\/p>\n
It added that the IRGC is one of the greatest achievements of the Iranian people, which has its roots in the Article 150 of the Iranian Constitution as a branch of the country\u2019s Armed Forces \u2026 and has helped regional governments and nations a great deal in the fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 The head of Iran\u2019s Judiciary, Hojatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi, called on the Foreign Ministry and Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) to take reciprocal actions against the US in case of its possible move to blacklist the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). Addressing a meeting of high-ranking officials of the Judiciary in Tehran on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16302,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions\/16302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}