Eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
For the moment, it is only a threat, but in Tehran as in Europe, we say we are ready to carry it out.
Since the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday calling on the European Union (EU) to include the Revolutionary Guards on its list of terrorist organizations, several senior leaders of the Islamic Republic have multiplied the warnings.
"If they add the guards (...), they must assume the consequences of this error"
, affirmed Hossein Salami, the leader of the Pasdarans, the elite unit in charge of the protection of the regime and involved in the repression of the demonstrations which have shaken Iran for more than four months (more than 450 dead, at least 15,000 arrests and three executions).
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of parliament, was more explicit:
"We will consider the armies of European countries (deployed) in the region as terrorist groups
," he said, as an MP threatened to
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