US to Blacklist Iranian Guards

The US is preparing to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards force as a foreign terrorist unit. It confirmed that this will be the first time official armed units of a sovereign state are included in the list of banned terrorist groups. The classification would allow the US to target the force's finances. There are currently 42 organizations on the state department's list of foreign terrorist organizations. They include al-Qaeda, the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as, Sri Lanka's Tami Tigers and the Basque separatist group Eta.