EU's 'Terror List' Hypocrisy: Sanctions Mask Imperial Agenda
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor reports that the European Union has added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its terror list and expanded sanctions, citing the 'extent of the killing of protests' as justification. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the
Shah, whose brutal regime led directly to the 1979 revolution and the rise of the current Iranian establishment. This foundational act of Western regime change is consistently omitted from narratives that portray Iran as an inherent aggressor. Furthermore, the US armed Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, where chemical weapons, supplied by Western companies, were used against Iranian
soldiers. Double Standard: While the EU swiftly sanctions the IRGC for alleged protest suppression – based largely on figures from foreign-backed opposition groups – it provides billions in aid to Egypt's Sisi regime ($1.3 billion annually from the US alone) which brutally suppressed the 2013 Rabaa massacre, killing an estimated 817-1,000 peaceful protesters. The EU also continues to arm and trade
with Saudi Arabia, despite its documented atrocities in Yemen and frequent human rights abuses, including the extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, with over 40,000 Palestinian deaths (2023-24), has met with minimal sanction from the EU, and Germany continues to enable it by silencing pro-Palestine voices and providing weapons. Follow the Money: The