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Iranian Unit to Be Labeled 'Terrorist' - U.S. Moving Against Revolutionary Guard
The Washington Post ^
| August 15, 2007
| Robin Wright
Posted on 08/14/2007 7:35:47 PM PDT by RDTF
The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's business operations and finances.
The Bush administration has chosen to move against the Revolutionary Guard Corps because of what U.S. officials have described as its growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its support for extremists throughout the Middle East, the sources said. The decision follows congressional pressure on the administration to toughen its stance against Tehran, as well as U.S. frustration with the ineffectiveness of U.N. resolutions against Iran's nuclear program, officials said.
The designation of the Revolutionary Guard will be made under Executive Order 13224, which President Bush signed two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to obstruct terrorist funding. It authorizes the United States to identify individuals, businesses, charities and extremist groups engaged in terrorist activities. The Revolutionary Guard would be the first national military branch included on the list, U.S. officials said -- a highly unusual move because it is part of a government, rather than a typical non-state terrorist organization.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: djibouti; duplicate; eritrea; executiveorder; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; irgc; lebanon; revolutionaryguard; sudan; terrorists; yemen
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:35:49 PM PDT
by
RDTF
To: FARS; Cindy
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:36:05 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: RDTF
tick...tick...tick...time is running out on the mullah’s!
To: RDTF
Wonder what President Mahmoud Iminajihad is going to think about this.....
To: RDTF
You know, it has driven me crazy from the start that we haven’t closed the border between Iraq and it’s three neighbors, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Just close the darned borders, then let the mullah truckers stew in their own sauces.
To: captjanaway
“Iminajihad”
lol good one. I call him “Imanutjob”
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:40:34 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: RDTF
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:41:48 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....run, Fred, run. :^)
To: DoughtyOne
I think there’d be a small (or not so small) riot if we closed Iraq’s borders while ours still leak like a sieve.
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:42:10 PM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: RDTF
“[The designation] will convince many in Iran’s elite that there’s no point in talking with us and that the only thing that will satisfy us is regime change.”
Works for me.
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:46:35 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: DoughtyOne
close the darned borders It is not in the Bush family DNA to close a border. Any border.
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posted on
08/14/2007 7:49:06 PM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: RDTF
To: captjanaway
he probly won’t know since it won’t be printed in the NYSlime!!
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:02:53 PM PDT
by
bubman
To: bubman
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:03:55 PM PDT
by
knyteflyte3
(Freedom is not for FREE)
To: RDTF; captjanaway; bobby.223
Iminajihad gets my vote.
To: RDTF
What is this going to accomplish since weâve severed ties with Iran 30 years ago?
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:17:55 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: RDTF
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:25:32 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
To: RDTF
The decision follows congressional pressure on the administration to toughen its stance against Tehran, as well as U.S. frustration with the ineffectiveness of U.N. resolutions against Iran's nuclear program, officials saidWhat congressional pressure? Congress has been trying to pass resoltutions preventing the President from launching any attacks against Iran without its permission. It sounds like people are starting to realize that we are in a very strategic position in Iraq vis-a-vis Iran. The WOT will not be won without regime change in Iran.
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:30:00 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: RDTF; seoul62
Specifying a unit and not their entire military makes the Revolutionary Guards Corp., no different than Al Quada.
In that sense they could take them out without asking the UN (only 15 months left)
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:33:53 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: RDTF
The key obstacle to stronger international pressure against Tehran has been China, Iran's largest trading partner. After the Iranian government refused to comply with two U.N. Security Council resolutions dealing with its nuclear program, Beijing balked at a U.S. proposal for a resolution that would have sanctioned the Revolutionary Guard, U.S. officials said.Therein lies the rub.
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:33:56 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: RDTF
Tammy Bruce calls him Amadinnerjacket.
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:41:49 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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