US designates Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organisation
Iran declares Washington a 'state sponsor of terrorism'WASHINGTON: The United States designated Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organisation, President Donald Trump said on Monday, marking the first time Washington has formally labelled another country’s military a terrorist group. Iran will retaliate in kind if US designates Guards as terrorists: MPsCritics have warned that the move could open US military and intelligence officials to similar actions by unfriendly governments. The United States has already blacklisted dozens of entities and people for affiliations with the IRGC, but not the organisation as a whole. Tehran hits backIn the wake of the Washington’s decision, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council declared the United States a “state sponsor of terrorism” and US forces in the region “terrorist groups.”In a statement carried by the official news agency IRNA, it said the move was in response to Washington’s “illegal and foolish act” of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organisation. Read full story
Source: The Express Tribune April 08, 2019 14:44 UTC
