The European Union has agreed to add Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its list of terrorist organizations, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Thursday.

Set up after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution to protect the Shi'ite clerical ruling system, the Revolutionary Guard Corps has great sway in the country, controlling swathes of the economy and armed forces, and was put in charge of Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear β€Œprograms.

Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, said that f

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