French leader Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday (April 9th) urged his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to avoid an escalation of tensions after the US blacklisted Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, AFP reported.
In a telephone conversation, Macron urged Rouhani to "avoid any escalation or destabilisation of the region", the French presidency said in a statement.
President Donald Trump called the unit -- which has some 125,000 troops and vast interests across the Iranian economy -- Tehran's "primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign".
The IRGC is the ideological arm of Iran's military and is deeply embedded in the country's political and economic life.
