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- USA President has advocated to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The designation would impose sanctions on the group and those who do business with it.
- The Muslim Brotherhood is a missionary movement founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher. He argued that an Islamic religious revival would enable the Muslim world to catch up to the West and combat colonial rule.
- The organization gained support through many Islamic countries and various Islamist political movements including missionary, charitable and advocacy organizations as well as political parties in many countries trace their roots to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
- The current Egyptian government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has classified the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and repeatedly accuses it of being behind terrorist attacks. However, the Muslim Brotherhood has consistently denied any involvement.
- During his visit to USA in April 2019, the Egyptian president had urged US President to designate Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization.
- Recently, the United States had designated Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization. This has been the first time that the U.S. designated an entity of another government as a terrorist organization.



