The Campus Hosts the Exhibition for the One-Year Anniversary of the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

By Anna Hazolyshyn, Staff Writer

Since the end of January, the issue of the Iranian regime has slowly been consuming more dialogue within the Eu- and occupation of Ukrainian territory.

The discussion on how to address these actions has developed into a practical debate on how to most effec-

On Jan. 19, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for the union to recognize Iran’s elite forces and its subsidiaries as “terrorist correct legal process. In retaliation, Iran claimed that it would vote on whether to designate European armed forces as terrorist organiza- ropean Union bloc. On the one hand, the discussion on how and to what extent the union needs to act against the regime is driven by the latter’s continued brutality against its civilian population. On the other hand, concerns over Iran stem much closer to home on the Ukrainian battlefront, where Iran has been exporting drones to assist Russia in its illegal invasion tively sanction Iran to limit and deter exports. It has once again underscored differences in how far European Union leaders are willing to go to assist widespread retaliation against authoritarian repression. Simultaneously, sharpened rhetoric directed against Iran within these debates has contributed to escalating tensions between both sides. organizations,” mainly in re sponse to the regime’s lethal repression of civilian protest ers. The resolution, however, is not binding, and the Euro pean Union’s chief of foreign policy, Josep Borrell, made clear that “you cannot say I consider you a terrorist because I don’t like you.” Therefore, the proposed designation will not be introduced until it has gone through the tions in a tit-for-tat move. Iran also threatened that negotiations to restore its 2015 nuclear deal would be entirely off the table. While both of these largely symbolic moves are unlikely to materialize, it demonstrates renewed tension in the verbal dialogue between both sides which will likely be reflected in more aggressive policy toward each other soon.