{"id":151025,"date":"2025-11-24T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/151025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:49:07","slug":"trump-begins-process-of-designating-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-terrorist-groups-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/151025\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump begins process of designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist groups | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Monday began the process of designating certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/muslim-brotherhood\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated global terrorists, a move would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world\u2019s oldest and most influential Islamist movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump signed an executive order directing secretary of state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio<\/a> and treasury secretary Scott Bessent to submit a report on whether to designate any Muslim Brotherhood chapters, such as those in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, according to a White House fact sheet. It orders the secretaries to move forward with any designations within 45 days of the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump administration<\/a> has accused Muslim Brotherhood factions in those countries of supporting or encouraging violent attacks against Israel and US partners, or of providing material support to Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPresident Trump is confronting the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s transnational network, which fuels terrorism and destabilization campaigns against US interests and allies in the Middle East,\u201d according to a White House fact sheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Brotherhood was founded in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/egypt\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egypt<\/a> in the 1920s as an Islamic political movement to counter the spread of secular and nationalist ideas. It swiftly spread through Muslim countries, becoming a major player but often operating in secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump on Monday began the process of designating certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-151025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}