German MPs call for putting IRGC on terrorism list

Forty-three members of the Social Democratic Party in the German parliament have called for the inclusion of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corpse, widely known by its acronym IRGC, in the list of terrorist groups.

Some of these MPs accused the Iranian regime of surviving by assassinating Iranians.

This, they added, makes the Iranian regime lose its legitimacy.

For his part, Kaveh Mansouri, a member of the Social Democratic Party with Iranian origins, said he and his colleagues are ready to take tougher steps, compared to the EU sanctions against the brutal regime of the mullahs.

On terror list

Members of the German parliament, especially from opposition parties, openly support the demonstrators in Iran.

They call for increasing pressure on the mullahs' regime, including by putting the IRGC on the terrorism list.

Mansouri said the Iranian regime's goal is to force the demonstrators to remain silent.

However, he added, the regime should know that it cannot force the whole world to remain silent.

He called for maintaining international pressure on the Iranian regime and including the IRGC in the list of terrorist groups.

Juergen Tritten of the Green Party said Iran presents itself as a religious government and acts like a god, but its policies are diabolical.

He called on the German government to offer unlimited support to the protesters in Iran.

He also called for confronting the regime that has been killing young people for years in Iran.

Jurgen Hart, another member of the German parliament, called for tightening sanctions against the Iranian regime and including the IRGC in the list of terrorist groups.

He expected this to send a clear message to young people in Iran that if they become members of this military organization, there will be a problem with their travel, education, economic activity and future.

Max Lax, a representative of the Green Party in the Bundestag, wanted to send a clear message to the Iranian regime: its era is over.

He described freedom as not a Western or even Eastern phenomenon, but a global phenomenon that should be enjoyed by all peoples.

Business activities

Total trade between Germany and Iran reached $1.87 billion dollars in 2021.

The German economy ministry said the German government had suspended the promotion of business with Iran, due to the suppression of protests in the Islamic Republic.

The ministry explained that the suspension of business activities would affect export credits, investment guarantees, manager training programmes and trade fairs in Iran, according to Reuters.

The US Treasury Department's Twitter account confirmed last week that the US had imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran, including the prosecutor-general and key military officials, because of Iran's crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman at the hands of the country's Morality Police.

The US Treasury Department said in a statement that it had imposed sanctions on Iranian Prosecutor-General Mohammad Montazeri, accusing him of directing courts in September to hand down harsh sentences to many of those arrested during the protests.

Also included was the Iranian company Ayman made Zaman FARA, which the Treasury Department said manufactures equipment for Iranian law-enforcement forces, including armoured vehicles used in crowd suppression.