(Ha'aretz) Sean Durns - The U.S. decision to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization is wise and necessary. The U.S. - under both Republican and Democratic administrations - has long considered the Islamic Republic to be the chief state sponsor of terrorism. If terror is Iran's top export, the IRGC is often the means of delivery. Previous administrations have refrained from designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, in part because of fears of reprisals from the IRGC and its terrorist proxies. But U.S. foreign policy should not be susceptible to blackmail.
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