EU Labels Iran's Guards 'Terrorists' – Ignores Its Own Role in Regional Chaos
📰 THE STORY: Mainstream outlets like the BBC report that the EU has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its 'terrorist list,' with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stating it’s a response to Tehran's 'deadly crackdown on protesters.' 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The West, including powers within the EU, has a foundational role in shaping modern
Iran's geopolitical landscape. In 1953, the CIA along with British intelligence orchestrated a coup d'état against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and setting the stage for decades of resentment and the 1979 revolution. Furthermore, the US armed Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, leading to an estimated 1 million casualties,
and supported his use of chemical weapons against Iranian troops. This deep history of intervention, not 'crackdowns,' is the root of the West's current standoff with Iran. Double Standard: The EU conveniently 'terrorizes' the IRGC – a state military institution – while its member states continue to sell arms to and partner with regimes notorious for human rights abuses and the actual terrorizing
of populations. For instance, the UK, a major EU trade partner, sells billions in weaponry to Saudi Arabia, whose intervention in Yemen has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. The same EU nations that cry foul over Iran's internal matters remain silent or complicit when their allies, like Israel, engage in actions that humanitarian organizations widely condemn as war crimes and