European Union foreign ministers adopted new sanctions on Iran on Thursday targeting individuals and entities involved in a violent crackdown on protesters and in the country’s support to Russia, EU diplomats said on Thursday. “If you act as a terrorist, you should also be treated as a terrorist,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said ahead of a gathering of the ministers in Brussels. The guards were also put in charge of Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes. But a brutal crackdown on a nationwide protest movement earlier this month, killing thousands of people, increased momentum for the move. France and Italy, which were previously reluctant to list the IRGC, lent their backing this week.