Iran summons EU envoys over paramilitary’s ‘terror group’ tag

Iran said on Monday it had summoned all of the European Union ambassadors in the Islamic Republic to protest the bloc’s listing of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terror group.

The move comes as Iran faces the threat of US military action in response to the killing of peaceful demonstrators and over possible mass executions. The American military has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers into West Asia.

It remains unclear whether the US will decide to use force, though regional countries have engaged in diplomacy in an effort to halt a new West Asia war from breaking out.

Washington-Tehran N-deal talks on Friday

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi plan to meet on Friday in Istanbul to discuss a possible nuclear deal, a US official said Monday. “The President’s been calling for them to make a deal. The meeting is to hear what they have to say,” the official said.