“Trying to save face, (Iranian Foreign Minister) Jafari said, “U.S. forces in the region cannot take any military action against[Iran].”
He’s wrong about that. One of the key facts about a formal designation as a terrorist organization, is that they (the IRGC) fall under the post 9-11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force.
Here is a nice little gem from the article:
“in response to a Fox News reporter asking is Qasem Soleimani considered alongside ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo answered, ‘Yes. He is a terrorist.’” “
It is now legal in the United States to kill him.
“Instagram, after closing accounts of senior IRGC commanders, is also closing those users who used a Farsi hashtag saying, “I, too, am an IRGC member.””
They are going to start seeing the effects in a hundred different ways, beyond just having their Instagram accounts closed. Any company doing business with them could be prosecuted for providing material support to a terrorist organization - subject to long personal jail sentences, rather than just fines to the business.
They now have a legal status like fugitive criminals, so they and their families will increasingly have difficulty just freely travelling and living in the West. A whole new round of laundering and hiding their ill-gotten assets must be undertaken.