Iran has threatened to escalate its stand-off with the West over the country's nuclear program if the EU follows the European Parliament's recommendation to designate the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a non-binding recommendation last week to add the IRGC to the EU's terrorist blacklist in response to "violent, indiscriminate, disproportionate and unrestrained" suppression of peaceful protests. Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Sunday that Tehran might withdraw from the non-proliferation treaty on ... (full story)