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Trump Warned against Designating IRGC Terrorist Organization

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The US State and War Departments cautioned President Donald Trump against designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] as a terrorist organization, a report said.

The White House has been weighing designating the IRGC - the elite arm of Iran's security forces -- and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations," Trump administration officials familiar with the matter told CNN.

But, the officials said, Trump did not sign executive orders on the issue after US national security agencies warned him about the consequences of such a move," the US news network reported on Thursday.

President Trump was scheduled to sign the IRGC order on Monday during his visit to the US Central Command [CENTCOM]'s headquarters in Tampa, Florida, but the plan was put on hold after the State and War Departments expressed "serious objections," according to the officials.

The US military's CENTCOM deals with issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, most notably Afghanistan and Iraq.

It is now not clear if Trump will sign the order regarding the IRGC.

The officials said Trump was told that designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization would create serious problems for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is receiving assistance from both the US military and the IRGC in his fight against the Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ISIS/ISIL] terrorist group.

In addition, they said that US national security agencies are concerned that American military and embassy personnel in Iraq could be targeted after such an action from the United States.

This is while, according to reports, some officials from the Trump administration have received money from the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization [MKO] terrorist organization to deliver speeches in support of the group.

Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, received $50,000 in 2015 for a five-minute speech to the political wing of the MKO, which has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team