Iran Just Shattered Europe's Legal Definition Of Terror
EU blacklists Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organisation, breaking its own legal precedent and exposing a double standard the bloc will never fix. Right, so the European Union has put the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC on its terrorist list. And by doing that, the EU has changed what it can say without being challenged, has changed the definition of terrorism itself. It has said that a state military body, and all states have them in the name of defence, can meet the terrorism threshold. That removes a defence the EU has relied on for years, which is that terrorism only applies to…
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