The Hunt: The designation of the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization

The U.S. government recently designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp as a foreign terrorist organization.

On this edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said the designation is long overdue.

April 17, 2019 | 'This designation should have been done long ago' (Alireza Jafarzadeh with WTOP's J.J. Green)

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J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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