Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has directed his departments of Treasury and State to consider designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations as he seeks to sanction the transnational Sunni Islamist group.
The executive order, signed by Trump on Monday, gives Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio 30 days to submit a joint report evaluating whether any chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization and as a specially designated global terrorist entity.
The chapters in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt were specifically named in the order.
"The order's ultimate aim is to eliminate the designated chapters' capabilities and operatives, deprive them of resources and end any threat such chapters pose to U.S. nationals and the national security of the United States," the White House said in a fact sheet.
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