TEHRAN (Iran News) –If the Europeans do not change their anti-Iran positions, Iran will possibly withdraw from the NPT as a countermeasure, the Iranian Foreign Minister said.
Reacting to a recent move by the European Union to designate the IRGC as a “terrorist” entity, Hossein Amirabdollahian told reporters on Sunday, “Parliament’s Sunday measure that binds the government to designate the armies of the European countries as terrorist is a countermeasure.”
Referring to his conversations with EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell, Amirabdollahian said that the resolution is not binding and it’s just an expression of the feelings of a part of the European Parliament representatives.
Answering a question about whether withdrawal from the NPT would be one of Iran’s countermeasures, Amirabdollahian said, “A small number of European political leaders, including the German Foreign Minister, have no experience in the field of diplomacy.”
Therefore, if they do not move in the direction of rationality and do not correct their positions, any measure is possible, he noted.
Earlier in a tweet Foreign Minister had warned the European Union of “reciprocal” measures after the European Parliament voted to add the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to the EU’s terror list.
“The parliament (of Iran) is working to place elements of European countries’ armies on the terrorist list,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Twitter.
“The European Parliament shot itself in the foot,” Iran’s top diplomat said, adding that the response would be “reciprocal.”
Amirabdollahian’s tweet came after the European Parliament on Wednesday adopted an amendment that was added to an annual foreign policy report and called on the EU and its member states to include the IRGC in their terror list.
The parliament also passed another resolution on Thursday, calling for more sanctions against Iranian individuals and entities and putting the IRGC on the EU terrorist list over alleged human rights violations during the recent riots.
