Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama Saturday condemned the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran as a criminal organization following coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
Rama said Albania had faced the “barbaric face” of Tehran’s regime through previous cyberattacks and called for decisive international action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear or other military capabilities that could threaten Israel or other peaceful nations in the Middle East.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization and must be treated as such,” Rama said in a statement. “Not only through sanctions against the Khomeinist Republic but by officially listing it among terrorist organizations, as the United States and Canada have already done.”
He emphasized Albania’s support for Israel and U.S. military assistance under President Donald Trump, and called on European partners to take similar measures.
Rama added that naming and sanctioning the IRGC was not merely a matter of geopolitics but a question of national security, moral clarity, and legal responsibility.
The comments came amid reports of at least 40 fatalities in Iran following the strikes, including an attack on a school in Minab. Israel claimed it targeted senior IRGC commanders.