Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi described US recent decision to blacklist IRGC forces as a 'strategic error' and 'a serious development' between Tehran and Washington and said it will face firm and clear-cut response.

A US judge on Monday issued an injunction halting the Trump administration's policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their deportation cases in Mexico.

The US State Department has barred entry to 16 Saudi nationals over what it described as their role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine in a statement late on Monday condemned the US move in placing the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on list of terrorists, saying that the US itself is sponsor of terrorists.

At least a total number of 77 schools were destroyed due to devastating floods in various provinces across Iran, a non-governmental organization said on Monday.

The UN representative in Iran says the international organization has opened a special financial channel to allow cash donations for the survivors of recent devastating floods in Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sent a letter to the embassy of Switzerland in Tehran announcing that in case the US enlists IRGC among terrorist groups, Iran will take countermeasures, a Parliament Member Ali Najafi Khoshroo quoted Zarif as saying in a meeting on Monday.

An official source at the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said Mon. that Syria strongly condemns the US administration against the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as "a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Iran."

The European Union in a statement extended sanctions against some individuals and firms for the alleged human rights violation for another one year until April 13, 2020.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) labeled the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) in the Middle-East as a terrorist entity in response to a similar move by Washington against the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).