According to Common Position 2001/931/CFSP, individuals or organizations can be added to the EU terror list when a “decision has been taken by a judicial or equivalen competent authority in respect of the person, group or entity concerned. This decision may concern an initiation of investigations or prosecution for a terrorist act or an attempt to carry out or facilitate such an act or a conviction for any of those actions.” 

In recent years, numerous arrests, investigations, and court decisions in several EU member states and the UK have implicated the IRGC in a multitude of terror plots on European soil, targeting European citizens and residents. Furthermore, several European intelligence services have publicly stated that the IRGC continues to plot terror attacks in Europe, particularly against Jewish communities and Iranian dissidents. The following list documents some of these cases: 

• On 30 May 2024, it was revealed that Iran had hired criminal gangs to attack the Israeli Embassy in Belgium a week prior and the Israeli Embassy in Sweden in January 2024. 
• On May 4 2024, French authorities charged a couple with plotting to kill Israelis and Jews in Germany and France on behalf of Iran. 
• On 12 April 2024, Argentina's highest criminal court ruled that Iran and Hezbollah were responsible for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in 1992, which killed 29, and the bombing of a Jewish community center in 1994 in which 85 people died. The court deemed Iran a terrorist state and ruled that then-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahramaie Rafsanjani was responsible for the attack.
• On 7 April 2024, three men who acted on behalf of the Iranian regime entered Germany where they spied on Jewish and Iranian dissident targets, whom they planned to later assassinate.
• On 19 December 2023, the Upper Regional Court of Düsseldorf, Germany, convicted an individual for firebombing a synagogue in Bochum, Germany. The attack happened on the night of 18 November 2022 and the Court confirmed that the individual had acted on behalf of Iranian authorities.
• On 10 December 2023, Cypriote and Israeli authorities foiled an attack against Israelis and Jews in Cyprus ordered by Iran
• On 25 June 2023, Cypriot authorities foiled a terror attack against Jewish and Israeli targets in Cyprus, reportedly orchestrated by the IRGC
• On 20 June 2023, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency released its annual public report for 2022, which stated that the IRGC continues to target the Jewish community, Israelis and Iranian dissidents in Germany. Moreover, the report states “it is to be expected that Iranian intelligence services will pursue their goals by all means necessary including violence and even killings.”
• On 16 May 2023, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, confirmed in a decision that an individual suspected of having fired shots at the synagogue of Essen, Germany, on 18 November 2023 had worked on behalf of the IRGC. The attack happened on the same night as the firebombing of the synagogue in Bochum, and a Hells Angels member connected to the IRGC is suspected of having orchestrated both attacks from Tehran.
• On 28 March 2023, Greek police arrested several Pakistani nationals reportedly working for the IRGC who were planning attacks on Jewish targets.
• On 23 February  2023, British Security Minister Tom Tugendhat stated that the IRGC was planning terror attacks against Jewish, Israeli, and Iranian opposition targets in the UK.
• In Fall 2022, the IRGC hired a people-smuggler to kill two UK-based news anchors working for Iranian opposition media. 
• On 10 June 2018, French, Belgian, and German authorities foiled an Iranian bomb plot against a dissident rally in Paris attended by tens of thousands of people. A Belgian court sentenced Iranian diplomat Asadollah Asadi to 20 years in prison for his involvement and he was later exchanged for a Belgian hostage. 
• On 16 January 2018, German authorities conducted raids against members of the IRGC’s Quds Force who had spied on Jewish kindergartens and the Israeli embassy in Germany.
• On 27 March 2017, the highest court of Berlin convicted a Pakistani national for spying on Israeli and Jewish targets on behalf of the IRGC. One of the targets was Reinhold Robbe, a former German MP and former chairman of the German-Israeli Society.