EU's 'Terror' Playbook: Rewriting History for Geopolitical Gain
📰 THE STORY: Al-Monitor explores whether the EU’s labeling of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization could backfire, potentially making the IRGC more aggressive abroad and assertive at home, rather than achieving its intended aim of moderating their behavior or isolating them. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This isn't about 'moderation';
it's about control. In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah and paving the way for decades of authoritarian rule. The IRGC was formed after the 1979 revolution, specifically to protect the new Islamic Republic from foreign-backed threats, a direct consequence of that earlier Western intervention. This
'terrorist' designation is merely a new chapter in a 70-year campaign to destabilize Iran. Double Standard: Western governments routinely arm and support regimes with far worse human rights records. The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion annually, despite its documented atrocities in Gaza since October 2023, where over 40,000 Palestinians, predominantly women and children, have been killed.
Saudi Arabia, a key Western ally, receives billions in arms sales even as it wages a brutal war in Yemen and executes dissidents. Yet, Iran's IRGC, a state military body, is singled out for a 'terror' label, while the actual terror inflicted by Western allies is sanitized as 'defense.' Follow the Money: The call for escalation against Iran is consistently amplified by think tanks and lobbying