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The EU is thinking about whether or not to categorise Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation. The circulate comes after the IRGC warned Iranians that Saturday might be their remaining day of taking to the streets to protest towards the demise of Mahsa Amini, in a signal that Iran can also additionally accentuate its already fierce clampdown on vast unrest. Amini, 22, died withinside the custody of the country's “morality police” on September thirteen even as traveling Tehran together along with her more youthful brother. “I made it clean remaining week that we can release some other package deal of sanctions, that we can take a look at how we also can listing the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation,” Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock informed broadcaster ARD on Sunday. Berlin remaining week stated it changed into tightening access regulations on Iran past an already introduced EU sanctions package deal. Germany condemn

    27 EU member states agreed to several proposals previously made by the European Commission, such as a voluntary overall 10 per cent reduction target for electricity consumption in addition to a mandatory cut of 5 per cent of power consumption during peak hours. “This won’t be an easy winter for us and next winter will be even more difficult,” said the European Commission’ s Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson during a press conference. Renewable energy producers will see their revenue capped at €180 per megawatt hour due to their unexpectedly high revenue in the past months. The EU’s system of pricing allows for all electricity producers to be paid the same price for the power they are selling despite differences in running costs. The commission hopes to raise €117 billion with this levy.