Trump just labeled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. But it could backfire.
Posted on AllSides April 8th, 2019
From The Left
The US-Iran standoff was just turned up to 11.
The Trump administration on Monday announced it had labeled the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) — Iran’s hugely influential security and military organization responsible for the protection and survival of the regime — as a “foreign terrorist organization.”
That will make it illegal for any American or person in the US to provide IRGC members “material support or resources” — a very broad definition that can mean almost anything — and anyone with connections to the group will be denied visas...