Netherlands joins German initiative pushing for EU's listing of IRGC as terrorist

The Netherlands says it will support Germany's initiative that pushes for the European Union's listing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

Last week, the European Union reportedly accepted a request from Germany to consider designating IRGC as a terrorist entity. However, Germany is not the only European country pushing for the listing of the Revolutionary Guard.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp announced on Wednesday that the Netherlands "will join the initiative to promote a decision in the EU to declare the IRGC a terrorist organization," Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted, after their meeting on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington DC.

The two sides also discussed “the need to promote severe sanctions against Iran," Katz said. "We will continue to join hands in our fight against terror."

In late June, the German Press Agency (DPA) quoted diplomats as saying that “multiple EU countries including Germany are pushing to classify the IRGC as a terrorist organization on the basis of a German court ruling.”

The German legal ruling earlier this year is from the High Court in the city of Düsseldorf, stating that a 2022 attack on a synagogue in the city of Bochum was traced to the “Iranian state authorities.”