tensions between The US and Iran have intensified on Monday. Iran has declared the United States to the “state sponsor of terrorism”. This was announced by the official news Agency Irna on Monday, shortly after US President Donald Trump had put the Iranian revolutionary guard on a Black list of “terrorist organizations”. In addition, the Supreme National security Council had classified the U.S. troops in the Middle East as “terrorist groups”, reported Irna.
The US government had previously, the Iranian revolutionary guard officially classified as a “terrorist organization”. As President, Donald Trump announced on Monday in Washington, the powerful paramilitary force on a corresponding Black list.
This will take account of the fact that the Garden is “active” terrorism as an “Instrument of state policy”, promoted and funded, said Trump.
The leadership in Tehran had warned the us government earlier strongly against the revolutionary guard as a foreign terrorist organization.
Trump should think twice before he lead the United States into a “disaster”, wrote the foreign Minister, Mohamed Javad Zarif on Sunday on Twitter.
As President, Donald Trump, the mighty Garden on a corresponding Black list.Photo: Ethan Miller/AFP
a Unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal
The US President called, in turn, the revolutionary guards “the most important agents of the Iranian government, to direct their global campaign of terror and implement”. With the step his government further increased the rate against the Iran, it considers a “rogue regime”.
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 return, were provided to Iran for better economic relations. The United States, however, increased unilaterally from the Deal, and imposed back economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Financial aid should be prevented
It is the first Time that the U.S. consider a military unit of another state as a terrorist organization. So far, the “Islamic state” (IS), Boko Haram or Hamas are to be found on the list to the Ministry of foreign Affairs.
The revolutionary guards are not in Iran’s only military force, but also politically and economically.Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP/dpa
The measure aims to provide financial assistance for the Garden. U.S. citizens and companies, it is forbidden to assist 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.
Enormous political and economic influence
The revolutionary guards in Iran according to the Constitution, the elite unit of the Iranian armed forces, and since more than three decades, is far more important than the classic army.
under the Supreme leader of the country Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has in all strategic matters, the last word directly. 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.
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Trump attacked Iran’s revolutionary guards should be considered as a terrorist group
The unit also has great political and economic influence in the country. The Garden are the hard-liners ideologically, although closer to, but also the Reformer President Hassan Rouhani to respect and value you as a guarantor of the Security of the country. (AFP/dpa/Tsp)
