The administration of US President Donald Trump will classify the Iranian revolutionary guard in an unprecedented step, as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump said, in order to send a clear Signal to the government in Tehran, “that their support for terrorists has serious consequences”. US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said Monday in Washington, the new classification will be 15. April to be effective. Tehran responded immediately.
The revolutionary guards (IRGC), the elite unit of the armed forces in Iran, which is far more important than the classic army. It is the first Time that the U.S. consider a military unit of another state as a terrorist organization. So far, the Ministry on the terrorist list of the U.S. groups such as the Islamic state (IS), Boko Haram or Hamas.
The revolutionary guards are directly responsible to the Supreme leader of the country Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has in all strategic matters the last word. The “guard of the guardians of the Islamic Revolution” controls all borders in Iran, the Persian Gulf, as well as nuclear plants and military bases.
The unit also has great political and economic influence in the country. The Garden are the hard-liners ideologically closer, but also the Reformer President Hassan Rouhani to respect and value you as a security guarantor in the country.
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Trump order, the revolutionary guards called on Monday, “the most important agents of the Iranian government, to direct their global campaign of terror and implement”. Pompeo announced that the United States would receive the maximum pressure, until the government in Tehran to give up its “deadly ambitions”.
The National security Council of Iran, in turn, the US Central command Centcom, which leads the American forces in the Middle East, on the list of terrorist organizations, such as the state news Agency Irna reported. The U.S. government will be classified in the decision of the Council as a “sponsor of terrorism”.
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Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized on Twitter, in the case of the US measure, it was another “gift” for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the parliamentary elections in the country this Tuesday. Netanyahu thanked his “dear friend” Trump on Twitter that he had “fulfilled a more important request of me.”
The revolutionary guards had warned the US prior to the announcement prior to such a step. Your commander Mohammed Ali Dschafari was quoted by the Tasnim news Agency with the words: “If the Americans really should commit such a stupidity and our national security compromise, then we will launch immediately take appropriate measures against you.”
Iran’s foreign Minister Zarif had posted on Sunday on Twitter, Trump should think two Times before, he lead the United States in this way, in a more “disaster”. Pompeo said on Monday that it had made to the leaders in Iran, “an attack on the United States is something you more often than two Times should think”.
the decision of The United States was also criticized by the Iranian Opposition harshly. “In spite of the political differences (the revolutionary guards), we are still United behind our armed forces,” tweeted Abdollah Ramesansadeh on Monday. The people should condemn the decision of US President Donald Trump, which he called “the illogical foreign enemy”, the former spokesman of the government of President Mohamed Khatami. Ramesansadeh is one of the leading opposition politicians in the country. Because of his criticism of the hard-liners – and also the political direction of the revolutionary guards – he had to to prison for six years.
Iran’s ally, Syria, also had criticism of the decision Trumps and spoke of a “blatant violation” of the sovereignty of Tehran. An unnamed employee of the Ministry of foreign Affairs in Damascus saw it as an “irresponsible step by the US government in the context of the war of the USA against Iran,” as the state Agency Sana reported. The revolution garden President Bashar al-Assad’s support since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011.
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The U.S. measure aims to provide financial assistance for the revolutionary guards to prevent U.S. citizens and companies prohibited in order to support the organization – for example, in the Form of money, weapons or Training. Members of the unit may not be traveling in the USA or can be shown. Pompeo said in view of the imminent classification, and the deep involvement of the IRGC in the Iranian economy, doing business with Iran, would now be more risky for non-American companies.
the U.S. government said on Monday, the revolutionary guard to “suppress Iranians at home and terrorize other Nations abroad”. All countries should work to weaken the revolutionary guards. “Today’s announcement is a historic step.”
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Trump had announced in the past year, the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Tehran. With the agreement of the construction of an Iranian nuclear bomb should be prevented. In turn, Iran were made to improve the economic relations. The United States, however, increased unilaterally from the Deal, and imposed back economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. (dpa)
