, Feb. 1 -- Iran's parliament on Sunday labeled all EU militaries as terrorist groups in response to the EU's designation of its Revolutionary Guard..

Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former Guard commander, said the designation is largely symbolic. Iran has previously used a 2019 law to reciprocally label foreign militaries as terror groups after the United States classified the Guard as such that year.

The announcement comes amid heightened Middle East tensions, with U.S. President Donald Trump weighing potential military action against Iran. The country has also scheduled live-fire drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil trade passes.

Qalibaf and other lawmakers donned Guard uniforms duri...