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President Donald Trump connected Monday (November 24, 2025) signed an enforcement bid directing apical nationalist information officials to statesman the process of designating definite chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood arsenic Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and arsenic Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). The bid instructs Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to undertake the reappraisal and travel the statutory steps for imaginable designations.
The enforcement bid directs to acceptable successful question a process by which definite chapters oregon different subdivisions of the Muslim Brotherhood shall beryllium considered for designation arsenic Foreign Terrorist Organizations” nether conception 219 of the INA, and arsenic SDGTs nether IEEPA and Executive Order 13224.
The Muslim Brotherhood, founded successful Egypt successful 1928, is described successful the bid arsenic a “transnational web with chapters crossed the Middle East and beyond.” The papers cites activities by chapters successful Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, stating they “engage successful oregon facilitate and enactment unit and destabilization campaigns that harm their ain regions, United States citizens, and United States interests.”
The bid references events pursuing the October 7, 2023, onslaught successful Israel, asserting that “the subject helping of the Lebanese section of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to motorboat aggregate rocket attacks against some civilian and subject targets wrong Israel.” It adds that “a elder person of the Egyptian section of the Muslim Brotherhood, connected October 7, 2023, called for convulsive attacks against United States partners and interests,” and that “Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood leaders person agelong provided worldly enactment to the militant helping of Hamas.”
“These activities endanger the information of American civilians successful the Levant and different parts of the Middle East, arsenic good arsenic the information and stableness of our determination partners,” the bid states.
The argumentation outlined successful the papers affirms that “it is the argumentation of the United States to cooperate with its determination partners to destruct the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters designated arsenic overseas violent organizations… deprive those chapters of resources, and thereby extremity immoderate menace specified chapters airs to United States nationals oregon the nationalist information of the United States.”
Under the implementation section, the bid directs that wrong 30 days, the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury “shall taxable a associated study to the President… concerning the designation of immoderate Muslim Brotherhood chapters oregon different subdivisions, including those successful Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.” Within 45 days of submitting that report, the secretaries indispensable “take each due action” regarding the designations nether applicable U.S. laws and Executive Order 13224.
The bid besides lays retired wide provisions noting that it does not change existing authorities of national agencies, volition beryllium implemented according to applicable instrumentality and appropriations, and “is not intended to, and does not, make immoderate close oregon benefit… enforceable astatine instrumentality oregon successful equity by immoderate enactment against the United States.” It adds that work costs “shall beryllium borne by the Department of State.”
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