The United States intends to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, US-based news outlet Just the News reported on Sunday, citing President Donald Trump
“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Just the News quoted Trump as saying. “Final documents are being drawn”
Earlier this year, Jordan became the latest Arab country to ban the Muslim Brotherhood following a sabotage plot foiled by its security agencies
Countries including Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates have all outlawed the movement
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the region’s oldest and most influential Islamist organizations, currently led by Mohammed Badie in Egypt, who is serving a life sentence and a death sentence for alleged planning of violent attacks
Badie and some 37 others were accused of conspiring to incite unrest after the July 2013 military removal of former president Mohammed Morsi, himself a Brotherhood figure
