BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has listed Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc’s top diplomat said in a post on X on Thursday. Other countries, including the U.S. and Canada, have designated the Guard as a terrorist organization. Terrorist group label a ‘symbolic act’France had objected to listing the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over fears it would endanger French citizens detained in Iran, as well as diplomatic missions. The Revolutionary Guard holds vast business interest across Iran, and sanctions could see any of its assets in Europe seized. Guard key to crackdownThe Guard was born from Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution as a force meant to protect its Shiite cleric-overseen government and later enshrined in its constitution.