The Trump administration designates Muslim Brotherhood branches in three countries as terrorist organizations.
On Tuesday, the administration of US President Donald Trump decided to designate the branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan as “terrorist organizations”.
The US Treasury Department has designated the group’s branches in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan as terrorist organizations.
US Secretary of State Mike Rubio said, “These measures are among the first steps in efforts to thwart violence perpetrated by branches of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Rubio added, “We will use the tools available to deprive these branches of the Muslim Brotherhood of the resources to engage in terrorism.”
The White House announced on November 25, 2025, that US President Donald Trump had signed an executive order directing the Secretaries of State and the Treasury to study whether specific branches of the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated as “foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated international terrorists.”
It is worth noting that the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is a dissolved group, and its activities were officially banned in April of last year, with it being considered an “illegal association” and any activity by it or the promotion of its ideas being prohibited, based on a previous judicial decision issued in 2020 that considered it “dissolved”.
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