Trump admin labels Muslim Brotherhood branches as terrorist organizations

The U.S. has designated 3 branches of the Muslim Brotherhood arsenic violent organizations, successful a determination that could interaction Washington's relationships with Qatar and Turkey.

The Treasury and State departments announced the moves against the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the group, which the Trump medication asserts airs risks to the U.S.

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The State Department gave the Lebanese subdivision of the Muslim Brotherhood the astir terrible of its labels, designating it a overseas violent organization, which makes it amerciable to supply worldly enactment to the group, The Associated Press reported. Additionally, the Treasury Department labeled the Jordanian and Egyptian branches arsenic specially designated planetary terrorists for providing enactment to Hamas. The Lebanese section of the Muslim Brotherhood was besides fixed a peculiar designation by the Treasury Department.

"These designations bespeak the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ unit and destabilization wherever it occurs," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said successful a statement, according to the AP. "The United States volition usage each disposable tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to prosecute successful oregon enactment terrorism."

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The labeling of the Jordanian section arsenic a specially designated planetary terrorists comes months aft Amman announced a sweeping prohibition connected the organization. The AP noted that portion the Jordanian monachy had antecedently banned the Muslim Brotherhood a decennary ago, it officially licensed a splinter radical and continued to tolerate the Islamic Action Front portion restricting immoderate of its activities. The Islamic Action Front, a governmental enactment linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, won respective seats successful the 2024 parliamentary elections.

In November, President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid calling for "certain chapters oregon different subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood" to beryllium considered for designation arsenic overseas violent organizations and specially designated planetary panic organizations.

The Muslim Brotherhood's "chapters successful Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt prosecute successful oregon facilitate and enactment unit and destabilization campaigns that harm their ain regions, United States citizens, and United States interests," the enforcement bid reads.

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The bid goes connected to authorities that aft the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks connected Israel, "the subject helping of the Lebanese section of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to launch aggregate rocket attacks against some civilian and subject targets wrong Israel." It besides adds that the Egyptian section of the Muslim Brotherhood "called for convulsive attacks" against U.S. partners and interests connected Oct. 7, 2023. Additionally, the bid states that the Jordanian chapter's leaders "have agelong provided worldly enactment to the militant helping of Hamas."

Both Florida and Texas person designated the Muslim Brotherhood arsenic a violent organization, thing Trump contemplated doing successful 2019 during his archetypal word successful office.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.