{"id":729334,"date":"2026-01-29T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/729334\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:44:13","slug":"how-the-eus-internal-resistance-on-iran-finally-cracked-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/729334\/","title":{"rendered":"How the EU\u2019s internal resistance on Iran finally cracked \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One EU diplomat from a country that had pushed for the listing in the lead-up to Thursday\u2019s meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels said footage of parents looking for their children in body bags had been particularly \u201chorrific\u201d and \u201cmotivating,\u201d along with reports of deaths in the tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Wednesday afternoon, Spain signaled its position had also shifted, with the foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-move-blacklist-iran-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling POLITICO<\/a> it supported the designation, which puts the Revolutionary Guard in the same category as al Qaeda, Hamas and Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>Paris was the last holdout. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/13668504-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7822557\"  \/>U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that \u201ctime is running out\u201d for the regime. | Laurent Gillieron\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>French officials had argued such a massive terror listing \u2014\u00a0the group has more than 100,000 personnel \u2014\u00a0would limit opportunities to talk about nuclear nonproliferation and other matters due to the fact that many of Europe\u2019s interlocutors are tied to the sprawling Revolutionary Guards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>France, along with the U.K. and Germany, is also a member of the E3 group of nations that are holding nuclear talks with Iran. While the E3 recently <a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.parliament.uk\/research-briefings\/cbp-10330\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">activated snapback sanctions<\/a> on Tehran over its failure to cooperate with inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, Paris was still hoping for a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n<p>For France, keeping the Revolutionary Guard off the EU terror list \u201cmaintained the possibility that the E3 could play a role if the negotiations on the nuclear program started again,\u201d said a European diplomat.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One EU diplomat from a country that had pushed for the listing in the lead-up to Thursday\u2019s meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[11783,12345,28,5293,32,2000,299,36,17104,4582,774,2199,13302,2596,5111,48,104,49,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-729334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-antonio-tajani","10":"tag-buildings","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-french-eu-presidency","17":"tag-human-rights","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-italy","20":"tag-jean-noel-barrot","21":"tag-kaja-kallas","22":"tag-parliament","23":"tag-rights","24":"tag-spain","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115980341339163362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}