{"id":185083,"date":"2025-09-18T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=185083"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:49:28","slug":"us-state-department-designates-four-iran-aligned-groups-as-terrorists-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/185083\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department designates four Iran-aligned groups as terrorists organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Today, the U.S. Department of State has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/09\/terrorist-designations-of-four-iran-aligned-militia-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated<\/a> Iran-aligned militia groups Harakat al-Nujaba, Kata&rsquo;ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, and Kata&rsquo;ib al-Imam Ali as foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The Department previously designated all four of these groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Iran-aligned militia groups have conducted attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and bases hosting U.S. and Coalition forces, typically using front names or proxy groups to obfuscate their involvement,&rdquo; the State Department&rsquo;s statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, the action supports Trump&rsquo;s National Security Presidential Memorandum-2, which mandates maximum pressure on Iran to cut off revenue to the regime and its terrorist proxies and partners.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our national security interests and deny funding and resources to terrorists,&rdquo; reads the statement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Department of State has designated Iran-aligned militia groups Harakat al-Nujaba, Kata&rsquo;ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, and Kata&rsquo;ib al-Imam Ali as foreign terrorist organizations. The Department previously designated all four of these groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. &ldquo;Iran-aligned militia groups have conducted attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":185076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185084,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions\/185084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}