US poised to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization

Published April 6, 2019 7:58pm ET



The Trump administration could designate an element of Iran’s military as a foreign terrorist organization as soon as Monday in an unusual move, according to multiple reports.

Though the State Department has long labeled Iran the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, it has never before classified a branch of a foreign government’s military as a terrorist group.

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