CNN: Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization
President Donald Trump announced Monday the US will formally designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
"This unprecedented step, led by the Department of State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft," Trump said in a statement that described the IRGC as "the Iranian government's primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign."
Iran warned this weekend that if the US went ahead with the designation, Tehran would retaliate by designating the US military as a terrorist organization in return.
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2 comments:
And this low level war continues to simmer. Hope we don't boil over.
Call something that it is, rarely is wrong. This organization has many goals, terror against the USA and Israel being high on its list. During the Iraq war it directed endless IED attacks against US troops working with Iraqi Shiites.
As for Iran's threats to do the same to US troops, their practice over decades has been to attack US troops throughout the region. Nothing will change.
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