President Trump Ramps Up Fight Against Iran

Under orders from President Trump, the US Government has designated Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force as a terrorist organization, with all the sanctions that come with such a declaration. Fox News reports:

The United States on Monday designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, an unprecedented declaration against a foreign government that may prompt retaliation and make it harder for American diplomats and military officers to work with allies in the region.

It is the first time that the U.S. has designated an entity of another government as a terrorist organization, placing a group with vast economic resources that answers only to Iran’s supreme leader in the same category as al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

“This unprecedented step, led by the Department of State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a state sponsor of terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft,” President Donald Trump said in announcing the measure.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the designation is intended to increase pressure on Iran, isolating it further and diverting some of the financial resources it uses to fund terrorism and militant activity in the Middle East and beyond. But, in addition to the potential for Iranian retaliation, it complicates a delicate balance for U.S. personnel in at least two key countries.

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This is a major step in the growing covert war with the Iranian government, and will give the American new tools to fight Islamic radicalism wherever it rears its head.

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Robert POWELL
Robert POWELL
5 years ago

this is at least two years late,but better late than never,IF the cockroach clinton was president this would never have happened.

Core
Core
5 years ago
Reply to  Robert POWELL

It’s decades too late. But we finally have a President worth his salt. Iran’s Theocracy has been a significant threat to the stability of the entire Mid East. They could have allowed the people of Iraq to rebuild post Baath Party, but they continue to destabilize the region to this day. They peddle conspiracies and disinformation to the uneducated to spread fear in their populations. They have most Arab’s convinced Israel and US are waging secret wars to destabilize the Arab World, yet it’s Iran who is behind the vast majority of it. They use sympathy for me Devil dialog to play the dumb benevolent actor, but they’re knee deep in all of it. Iran was always a bigger threat than Iraq or any single terror group.

Gerald Ladd
Gerald Ladd
5 years ago
Reply to  Robert POWELL

Well Robert, Iran put millions in the Clinton foundation.

Gerald Ladd
Gerald Ladd
5 years ago

LOL..this will piss of Killary KKKlinton.
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An Iranian foundation recently convicted as a front organization for the theocratic regime in Tehran donated five-figure sums to the infamous Clinton Foundation.

Last week, a New York grand jury ruled that the government can seize a building majority-owned by the Alavi Foundation, agreeing with prosecutors that it is a front group for the mullahs in Tehran. The foundation used the Manhattan skyscraper to garner hundreds of millions in revenue so it could supply cash for its “charitable” endeavors inside the United
States.
The Alavi Foundation rarely donated to non-Islamic or non-academic institutions. Alavi spent most of its funds on building Shiite institutions — such as mosques and cultural centers — and installing Iran-friendly professors at prominent American universities.

So its regular donations to the Clinton Foundation — now estimated at around $100,000 — particularly stood out. From 1985 to 2014, the Alavi Foundation — which last year listed its assets at over $100 million — donated to only 13 non-Islamic organizations.

In addition to its direct donations to the Clinton Foundation, the Alavi Foundation has also sent money to organizations associated with the non-profit. Alavi has given funds to the Clinton Foundation through its supposed humanitarian programs (the “Child Foundation”) in Louisiana and Haiti.

Prominent legislators have labeled the Clinton Foundation as something resembling a money-laundering and influence-peddling operation. Its critics argue that the foundation was primarily utilized to curry favor with the power Clinton family. They point to instances like the foundation’s disaster-relief fundraising efforts in Haiti, which ended up enriching the Clinton Foundation and not doing anything substantive to relieve the suffering of the people on the ground.

When first confronted with the possibility that the Alavi Foundation was an Iranian front group, the Clinton Foundation refused to return its donations.

Thomas
Thomas
5 years ago

Wish we could just NUKE Iran and make them GLOW IN THE DARK ! Eventually we will have to fight them !

Tobydog1
Tobydog1
5 years ago

HMMMM! Iran was “donating” money to the Clinton “Charity”. That really fits! Sooner or later, I think that we were going to have to deal with Iran. I’ll bet that there will be an upsurge in terrorist activities here and abroad and certainly, against Israel. We had better keep a close watch on the Obama Sleeper Cell!

John
John
5 years ago

Go get em Mr President.
2020TRUMP2020

zee
zee
5 years ago

KNOCK ‘IT’ OFF, Mr. Pres. STOP IT !!!
BOLTON/NELLER Doing YOU/USA
No ‘favours’ Ramping up
The ‘War Machine’. Not too sure
re Dunbar, & Pompeo , welll – he
NEED to STOP ‘rhetoric’.

David Kachel
David Kachel
5 years ago

OK, now sink their entire bathtub navy, just for laughs and giggles.

Bruce
Bruce
5 years ago

This President is RIGHT, again! I’ll take this one step further: Muslims, of any nation, in any time are Terrorists! These are NOT my words, they are by a Muslims own doctrine, and here is how to PROVE what I say! 1 See the Sharia Law #2 IT IS a Muslims “DUTY” to commit JIHAD, or WAR against Non-Muslims, and It is the OBLIGATION of all Muslims to LIE to further Allah’s commandments! See S/L #1 Now, see the Koran in Sura 2:191-193 it says “FIGHT” them wherever you may find thwm..(Is this not so as in 9/11 and the embassey bombing, and Ft Hood and the Achille laro incident and the Locherby Scotland inceident!) There are Christians being killed in Africa (where is the Media) and raped and their land taken etc and yet! See also Sura 5:33-36 “KILL” oppossers of Allah…Sura 8:12-13 …smite infidels…kill Sura 9:5 …..slay Idolators…Sura 9:80…Allah has NO Mercy…Sura 8:39…FIGHT them until all religions are for Allah…Sura 2:256…there is no compulsion in religion, and yet, see Sura 8:39 Islam/Muslims have a VIOLANT and BLOODY History and have always been this way since Mohammed , and they will continue to do as they have done! Better get a FREE Koran and the Sharia Law and READ it and get to know the enemy within!! P.S. the words written are NOT what I think or believe etc, these are words and doctrine of Islam and the Koran, straight from the Koran/Sharia Law! YOU NEED FACTS here, not my opinion!

Bruce
Bruce
5 years ago

Question: If you read a book of FACTS, it claims to be as such, and then somewhere down the line, you manage to find, or discover a LIE, outright or subtle, would you be able to trust that book or info again? YOU KNOW the answer! Well, let’s put a book, written by a man/men (No one really knows) to the test, or books, I should say. The first one is Koran; in the Koran Sura (chapter) 18:86 it says the sun sets in a puddle of murky water. (REALLY) Again in Sura 18:9-25 it is the companions of the cave. It says several young men entered a cave w/thier dog and fell asleep for over 300 years and when they awoke, they leftas in the day they left, still young etc Sura 2:259 is another, there are Mistakes, proven in the Koran, and many. there are words like “Qaf”, and ssad etc that have NO meaning! There are many errors in the Koran/Hadith (what Mohammed said: he couldn’t read or write) but, I’ll leave you w/one UNrefutable error here that is glaring; Hadith vol.3, no# 5113 ch DCCCLXII says a believer eats in “ONE/1 Intestine whereas a NON-Believer (that’s me and you) eats in seven/7 intestines. Also said in no#’s 5114-5120 These are QUOTES/FACTS, NOT my opinion! Could you believe anyone who Blatantly LIES to be trustworthy? See S/L no#1 I WILL NEVER TRUST A MUSLIM!!

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