President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree this weekend designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s (IRGC) Quds Force a terrorist organization.
The Quds force is the foreign branch of the IRGC is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, tasked with conducting foreign terrorist activity outside of Iran and destabilizing foreign governments. Milei’s decree also specifically targeted 13 individuals linked to the terrorist organization.
The designation, signed by Milei on Saturday, January 17, adds the Quds Force and the 13 linked individuals to Argentina’s Public Registry of Persons and Entities Linked to Acts of Terrorism and its Financing (RePET), making them subject to financial penalties and operational restrictions designed to limit their capacity to act. The designation also prevents them from using the Argentine financial
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