The European Union has held off on designating the IRGC a terror group, while Australia and Canada have followed the US’s lead. The Europeans have been divided, with Italy lobbying for the designation and France resisting. They didn’t, and there was 'Operation Midnight Hammer,' a major destruction of Iran," Trump said on Wednesday in a social media post. Trump sanctioned the IRGC in 2019 and declared it a “foreign terrorist organisation” after unilaterally withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has imposed its own “terror designation” on US military officials in response, but the impact is negligible.