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Leading Jewish, Pro-Israel Groups Praise U.S. Designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guards as Terrorist Organization
(Algemeiner) Benjamin Kerstein - "The IRGC has provided support and assistance to terrorist organizations and has fostered instability in the region," said Arthur Stark, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "Clearly, U.S. sanctions on Iran are having an impact, and this additional measure will place added pressure on the regime." American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris said, "Recognition of the IRGC as a key arm of Iran's global terrorism strategy is vitally important to the U.S., which first designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984." AIPAC called the IRGC "the principal instrument of the Iranian regime's policy of international terrorism and regional aggression" and noted that it was "responsible for the death of hundreds of American troops in Iraq."