In a letter to President Biden on Tuesday, the group said removing the IRGC from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) would go “against the will and interest of the Iranian people” and would be “a direct threat to the advancement of democracy.”
Over 500 Iranian American professionals urge Biden to keep Revolutionary Guard on terror list
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The IRGC, skeptics say, would use its restored access to funds to underwrite support for militant regional allies such as Hamas and Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, anti-American militias in Iraq and other extremist outfits.
Biden faces growing pressure over nuclear talks, rumored plan to pull Iran's IRGC from terror list
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