This is about as sane as that time Caligula made his horse a Senator.
The Bush administration has decided to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a "specially designated global terrorist organization.” This move will take place under Executive Order 13224, signed September 23, 2001. The EO authorizes the
The classification of the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization is the first time a military branch of a sovereign government has been so designated.
The driving purpose of this move is to impinge upon the Revolutionary Guard’s far-reaching business interests, and as a cudgel to wield against foreign companies that do business with the Revolutionary Guard, and individual IRGC members.
"Anyone doing business with these people will have to reevaluate their actions immediately," said a
Expect this to set off a great hue and cry among
Joseph Cirincione, a nuclear proliferation expert at the Center for American Progress fears that this move could have a deleterious effect on diplomatic efforts, "It would greatly complicate our efforts to solve the nuclear issue. It would tie an end to
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