President Trump Did Not Declare Iran's Revolutionary Guards A Terrorist Group? Should He Have?

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards march during a military parade to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war in Tehran September 22, 2007. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo

Politico: Trump pulls his punch against elite Iranian military group

The president says the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps supports terrorism — but won't formally declare the IRGC a terrorist group.

“The Revolutionary Guard is the Iranian supreme leader’s corrupt personal terror force and militia,” Trump said in an address outlining his wider Iran strategy. “It has hijacked large portions of Iran’s economy and seized massive religious endowments to fund war and terror abroad.”

Despite his charged accusations against the IRGC, a religiously oriented entity formed after Iran’s 1978-79 Islamic revolution, Trump did not legally designate the group a "foreign terrorist organization," a move that could have heavy political and legal consequences.

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WNU Editor: They are the Iranian Supreme Leader's personal militia ... so labeling them as a terror group would have had political and legal consequences. My guess is that this was one step to far for the White House.