US 'futile' threat playing into IRGC popularity: Iran military chief
Tehran (KNA) - Washington's threat against the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) through designating it as a "terrorist" organization is rooted in "anger" and a "strategic dead-end" the administration of President Donald Trump is facing, Iran's military chief says.
"I am confident this futile threat will only serve to increase the IRGC's popularity," Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said in a message on Sunday, marking the anniversary of the approval of the IRGC's statute.
The United States on Monday officially registered the IRGC as a "foreign terrorist organization," according to a notice published on the website of the US Federal Register.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in his notice that based upon a review of the Administrative Record assembled in this matter, and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, "I conclude that there is a sufficient factual basis to find that the relevant circumstances described in section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (hereinafter "INA") (8 U.S.C. 1189), exist with respect to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard[s] Corps, also known as [the] IRGC."
Source: PressTV