In response to IRGC blacklisting, Tehran lists Argentina’s two forces as ‘terrorist’
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Iran has taken a retaliatory step after Argentina declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organisation. The country has declared Argentina’s navy and air force ‘terrorist organisations’.
In a statement on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry said the decision was taken on the basis of a policy of reciprocity. As its basis, the ministry cited the ‘reciprocal action’ law passed in 2019.
The statement warned, ‘Naturally, the Argentine government will be responsible for all the consequences arising from this.’
The Argentine government had put the Revolutionary Guards on the list of ‘terrorist organisations’ in April this year.
In 1994, 85 people were killed and several hundred injured in a bomb attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. Argentina has been blaming the Islamic Republic of Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah for the attack.
However, Iran has always denied any involvement in the attack.
Background
According to a Buenos Aires Times report of 1 April 2026, President Javier Milei’s government, while putting the IRGC on the terrorist list, mentioned the organisation’s alleged involvement in the attacks on the Israeli embassy and the AMIA Jewish community centre.
An Al-Monitor report of April 2026 said Argentina had earlier in January also declared the Quds Force, the IRGC’s foreign operations arm, a terrorist organisation. After listing the IRGC, the country also expelled an Iranian diplomat.
Sources
Original report: Bangladesh Pratidin
Background sources: Buenos Aires Times, 1 April 2026; Al-Monitor, April 2026
