Brussels -- EU foreign ministers agreed Thursday to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a "terrorist" group, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said. "This was long overdue," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said, praising the decision. "'Terrorist' is indeed how you call a regime that crushes its own people's protests in blood," von der Leyen added. With the classification, the EU joins countries like the US, Canada and Australia, who had already applied the label to the IRGC. The anticipated move by the EU to blacklist the Revolutionary Guard comes after France and Italy said they would support the measure, after previously resisting it.