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US designates Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organisation

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march in September 2018 during the annual military parade marking the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. [AFP]

President Donald Trump on Monday announced the United States is designating Iran's elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a terrorist organisation.

Trump said in a statement that the "unprecedented" move "recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft."

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