Trump just labeled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. But it could backfire.

Posted on AllSides April 8th, 2019
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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...

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https://www.vox.com/2019/4/8/18300239/iran-trump-irgc-terrorist-pompeo

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