Iran Plans to Designate Canadian Army, RCMP as ‘Terrorist Organizations’

Published on June 24, 2024

Iranian parliamentarians are calling on their government to list Canada’s army and RCMP as “terrorist organizations” in a retaliatory move against Ottawa for its recent decision to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity.   A group of 250 Iranian legislators introduced a motion June 23 demanding the designation, Iranian state-owned news network Press TV reported on June 23. The broadcaster is owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The legislators are calling on the Iranian Foreign Ministry to use “all political and international means” to denounce the Canada’s “hostile move” of naming the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces, a terrorist organization....

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