Iranian Foreign Ministry summons Canadian ambassador

The Canadian ambassador has been summoned to Iran’s Foreign Ministry over the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, Report informs referring to IRNA.

“Canada’s unlawful act of labeling an integral part of official armed forces of I.R. Iran that has had an unmatched role in defending the national security and territorial integrity of beloved Iran, in protecting the regional security and stability and in countering Da’esh terrorism, as terrorism, is a malicious provocation that violates the principles and rules of international law and is just a gift to the genocidal regime, terrorists and other enemies of regional peace and stability,” Iranian acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani wrote on X.

The Canadian ambassador was told that Tehran reserves the right to retaliate.