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The Iranian Foreign Ministry designated the Royal Canadian Navy a violent organisation connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025) successful what it said was retaliation for Canada's 2024 blacklisting of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
In a statement, the Ministry said that the determination was successful absorption to Ottawa declaring the Guards, the ideological limb of Iran's military, a panic radical "contrary to the cardinal principles of planetary law".
Iran "within the model of reciprocity, identifies and declares the Royal Canadian Navy arsenic a violent organisation," the connection added, without specifying what ramifications if immoderate the unit volition face.
On June 19, 2024, Canada declared the IRGC a panic group. This bars its members from entering the state and Canadians from having immoderate dealings with idiosyncratic members oregon the group.
Additionally, immoderate assets the Guards oregon its members clasp successful Canada could besides beryllium seized.
Canada accused the Guards of "having consistently displayed disregard for quality rights some wrong and extracurricular of Iran, arsenic good arsenic a willingness to destabilise the planetary rules-based order."
One of the reasons down Ottawa's determination to designate the unit arsenic a panic radical was the Flight PS752 incident.
The formation was amusement down soon aft takeoff from Tehran successful January 2020, sidesplitting each 176 passengers and crew, including 85 Canadian citizens and imperishable residents.
The IRGC admitted its forces downed the jet, but claimed their controllers had mistaken it for a hostile target.
Ottawa broke disconnected diplomatic ties with Tehran successful 2012, calling Iran "the astir important menace to planetary peace".
Iran's archenemy, the United States, listed the Guards arsenic a overseas violent organisation successful April 2019 portion Australia did the aforesaid past month, accusing the unit of being down attacks connected Australian soil.
