US President Donald Trump ordered the designation of the Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood, active in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, as a foreign terrorist group for its ties to the Palestinian movement Hamas.

The president signed an executive order instructing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to formalize the designation.

The decree states that the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has become “a transnational network with affiliates in the Middle East,” such as Lebanon and Jordan, where they “participate in, facilitate, and support campaigns of violence and destabilization.”

Trump maintains that, following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, in Israel, the Lebanese faction of the Muslim Brotherhood launched “multiple attacks” against Israeli civilian and rocket military targets. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the EU, Israel, and the United States. In Egypt, the organization urged “violent attacks against US partners and interests,” and in Jordan, they “have long provided material support” to Hamas, according to Trump. “Such activities threaten the safety of American civilians in the Levant and other parts of the Middle East, as well as the security and stability of our regional partners,” he notes. Trump's order means that Rubio and Bessent have 30 days to prepare a report on the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood, and especially its cells in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. Within 45 days of that report, they must take the formal designation actions according to the relevant law. This same Monday, the State Department formalized the designation of the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist group, an organization that Washington says is led by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, something Caracas denies. categorically.