Is Iran’s revolutionary guard a terror group as US says?
By DW
10 April 2019 |
8:43 am
Critics say that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been involved in terror-related activities and rights abuses. They are however divided whether its designation as a "terrorist group" is the right decision.
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