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8
April
2019

Washington announces an unprecedented IRGC terrorist designation

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📅 8 April 2019 📍 Iran

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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