In a statement released on Sunday, Esmaeil Khatib expressed the Intelligence Ministry’s full support for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, denouncing the European Parliament’s “worthless, hasty and ill-advised” move to designate the IRGC as a “terrorist organization”.
Lauding the IRGC as a magnificent and popular component of Iran’s military power that has stood against the arrogance and terrorism, the intelligence minister said Iran reserves the legitimate and inalienable right to take retaliatory action against any move violating the Islamic Republic’s national security.
He also noted that the Western governments’ weak intelligence evaluation and improper knowledge of the Iranian people and the logic of administration in Iran have made them resort to such worthless symbolic measures in order to provide artificial respiration for the failed and foreign-orchestrated project on creating chaos and riots in the country.
The European Union has turned into a puppet of the US state-sponsored terrorism, the Zionist regime, and the despicable anti-Iranian groups, Khatib stated, warning that the Western interfering plots against Iran as well as their regional policies will end in total failure.
In remarks at a parliamentary meeting on Sunday, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned of swift retaliatory action against the European Parliament’s plan to blacklist the IRGC, saying Iran is going to designate the armies of the European states in the region as terrorist organizations.
The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has warned the Europeans that they will have to suffer the consequences of repeating their past mistakes.