The Trump administration announced that it would designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization; the designation took effect April 15. This was the first time the United States applied the FTO label to part of another state’s government. It further blurred the boundary between counterterrorism law and state-to-state coercion.
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What was unprecedented about the 2019 US IRGC designation?
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The US administration described the designation as the first of its kind.
The United States had previously applied the FTO label to parts of other governments before designating the IRGC.
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The US announcement called the 2019 IRGC designation unprecedented.