EU 'Terror List' Hypocrisy: Designating Resistance, Funding Oppression
📰 THE STORY: France 24 highlights the European Union's consideration of adding Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its 'terrorist' list, portraying the IRGC as a 'paramilitary' organization responsible for destabilization, with the article emphasizing its alleged human rights abuses and regional activities. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The US, UK, and Israel
have consistently sought to destabilize Iran since the 1979 Revolution, a direct response to the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The IRGC was formed after that revolution to protect the new government from internal and external threats, including those posed by the US-backed Saddam Hussein in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War,
where Western powers, including France, provided chemical weapons to Saddam. Double Standard: Western media and governments readily label adversaries' state-affiliated military forces as 'terrorist' organizations while simultaneously providing billions in aid and advanced weaponry to regimes, like Saudi Arabia and the Israeli government, whose actions, such as the Saudi war on Yemen (which caused
377,000 deaths by 2021 according to the UN) or Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza (40,000+ dead since October 2023), generate humanitarian catastrophes. NATO, a military alliance, isn't on any 'terrorist' list despite its 2011 intervention destroying Libya and creating a failed state. Follow the Money: The push for such designations often aligns with the interests of the military-industrial complex