Wednesday, August 15, 2007

United States Declares Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps TERRORISTS

United States Declares Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
TERRORISTS
Wednesday
, August 15, 2007

I saw this news first on Fox this morning. Their web site has the story that starts off like this... The United States will soon be referring to an Iranian military division as a "specially designated global terrorist," a state department official told FOX News on Wednesday... Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps would be targeted in terror financing probes under guidelines established under Executive Order 13224, which President Bush signed nine days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The story on the new targeting was first reported late Tuesday in The Washington Post...
Read the rest at link below...
U.S. to Label Iran Revolutionary Guard ‘Terrorists’

>>> TurkishPress.com has this take on the story...
The United States plans to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist" organization, allowing the US government to target the military branch's business and financial operations, newspapers reported Wednesday... President George W. Bush's administration suspects the Revolutionary Guard, Iran's largest military arm, of providing support to extremists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the Middle East...
Read the rest at link below...
US to brand Iran's revolutionary guard a terror group

>>> LebaneseLobby.org has this take...
Washington fuels Gulf tensions with plan to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guards

>>> NYTimes.com writes it this way...
Terrorist Label for Iran Guard Reflects U.S. Impatience With U.N.

And so it starts...
AubreyJ.........

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