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IRGC terrorist designation: Mirroring US policy, EU crosses Islamic regime's 'red line'
Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Int'l Crisis Group's Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President. As the EU formally designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, the foundations of state-to-state diplomacy face an irreversible rupture. Meanwhile, the US weighs military options. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the beginning of an existential clash between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion incite the regime to further crush internal dissent and embark on a 'war of survival'?
Nadia Massih welcomes Ali Vaez, Int'l Crisis Group's Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President. As the EU formally designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, the foundations of state-to-state diplomacy face an irreversible rupture. Meanwhile, the US weighs military options. Are we witnessing the unraveling of diplomacy or the beginning of an existential clash between the West and the Islamic regime? Could Western coercion incite the regime to further crush internal dissent and embark on a 'war of survival'?
