SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran reacted with fury on Thursday after the EU blacklisted the country’s Revolutionary Guards as a terror group, as Tehran faced off with Washington after US President Donald Trump warned time was running out for a nuclear deal.

The European Union piled on mounting pressure on Iran on Thursday by designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a ‘terrorist organisation’ over a deadly crackdown on recent mass protests

‘’Terrorist’ is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own people’s protests in blood,’ said EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, welcoming the ‘overdue’ decision.

Though largely symbolic, the EU decision has already drawn a warning from Tehran that it would have ‘destructive consequences’.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called it a ‘another major strategic mistake’ after key European powers last year triggered the return of UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.

Iran’s military slammed ‘the illogical, irresponsible and spite-driven action of the European Union’, alleging the bloc was acting out of ‘obedience’ to Tehran’s arch-foes the United States and Israel…”