Iran's parliament warned of a "decisive and prompt" response to the European Parliament's move to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
Speaking during a special session, Parliament Speaker Baqer Qalibaf said Iran will respond to any move sanctioning or listing the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
As part of the response, he stressed, the European military deployed in the region would be designated as "terrorist groups", while urging the Western countries to "not close the window of diplomacy."
In a non-binding vote last week, the European Parliament condemned the IRGC for its crackdown on protesters amid the months-long unrest in the country as well as the supply of drones to Russia for use in Ukraine.
The retaliatory response came after the European Parliament adopted an amendment in a non-binding vote last week, which was added to an annual foreign policy report, calling on the EU and its member states to include the IRGC on their terror list.
