Iran regime cited as Trump admin set to designate Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood a terror group

JOHANNESBURG: The Trump administration, citing Iran, is taking much enactment against the Muslim Brotherhood—this clip successful 1 of the world’s worst conflicts: the civilian warfare successful Sudan.

On Monday, the State Department declared the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) to beryllium a "Designated Global Terrorist and intends to designate the radical arsenic a Foreign Terrorist Organization, effectual March 16, 2026." The connection besides contained a informing to Iran regarding its meddling successful the conflict.

"The SMB has contributed upwards of 20,000 fighters to the warfare successful Sudan, galore receiving grooming and different enactment from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," the connection noted. 

It added, "As the world’s starring authorities sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian authorities has financed and directed malign activities globally done its IRGC. The United States volition usage each disposable tools to deprive the Iranian authorities and Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to prosecute successful oregon enactment terrorism."

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Fighters of the Sudan Liberation Movement, a Sudanese rebel radical progressive successful Sudan's Darfur State which supports service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, be a graduation ceremonial successful the southeastern Gedaref authorities connected March 28, 2024.  (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

In November, the State Department sanctioned the Muslim Brotherhood successful Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, declaring it to beryllium a violent enactment successful those countries.

The organization, the State Department noted, is "composed of the Sudanese Islamic Movement and its equipped helping – the al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade (BBMB), (and) uses unrestrained unit against civilians to undermine efforts to resoluteness the struggle successful Sudan and beforehand its convulsive Islamist ideology."

FILE- Members of the Iranian revolutionary defender march during a parade. The IRGC is designated arsenic a overseas violent enactment by the State Department. A ample portion of its enactment is to covertly run extracurricular of Iran.  (Reuters)

The connection added that the group’s "fighters person conducted wide executions of civilians successful areas they captured, and repeatedly and summarily executed civilians based connected race, ethnicity oregon perceived affiliation with absorption groups."

Edmund Fitton-Brown, a elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital that the Muslim Brotherhood’s links wrong the Sudanese government’s Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are heavy and lend aggressively successful the warfare against the Rapid Support Forces.

Sudanese service soldiers instrumentality portion successful a subject parade successful Sudan's superior Khartoum connected Aug. 23, 2025 (Ebrahim Hamid AFP via Getty Images)

Fitton-Brown, a erstwhile U.K. ambassador to Yemen, added that the Brotherhood has a "strong component" successful the Sudanese regular army.

Adding that the Brotherhood successful Sudan has humanities links with Osama Bin Laden, liable with al Qaeda for the 9/11 violent attack, Fitton-Brown stated that the State Department’s determination is significant. "It is the archetypal factual denotation that the November enforcement bid was lone the commencement of a process."

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Sudanese displaced radical stitchery astatine the Zam Zam exile campy extracurricular the municipality of El-Fashir successful the Darfour portion of Sudan, during a sojourn by U.N. officials, connected July 1, 2004. The U.N. humanitarian assistance and exile agencies appealed Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, for $4.1 cardinal successful planetary enactment for embattled civilians successful Sudan amid signs that immoderate whitethorn beryllium dying of starvation aft astir a twelvemonth of warfare determination betwixt the forces of rival generals. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

On the sanctioning of the Brotherhood successful respective countries successful the region, helium said, "I expect determination volition beryllium galore more, perchance starting with al-Islah successful Yemen." He said the determination "puts Sudan nether governmental unit due to the fact that it is efficaciously associating its authorities with a violent entity."

The effects of the astir three-year-long civilian warfare connected the radical of Sudan are dire. Last month, the Council connected Foreign Relations’ planetary struggle tracker stated the "death toll estimates alteration widely, with the erstwhile U.S. envoy for Sudan suggesting arsenic galore as 400,000 have been killed since the struggle began connected April 15, 2023. More than 11 million have been displaced, giving emergence to the worst displacement crisis in the world.

On Monday, the president of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho., posted connected X, "This is simply a captious measurement to curb the Muslim Brotherhood’s power successful the region, particularly arsenic hardline Islamists question to reassert themselves. Now, we indispensable besides earnestly see the aforesaid FTO designation for the genocidal Rapid Support Forces and their panic run successful Sudan."

Fitton-Brown said the State Department’s designation against the Brotherhood successful Sudan "is bully due to the fact that it objectively targets a radical of radical who person brought untold misery to Sudan implicit decades. It is not a connection of enactment for the RSF. It is perchance empowering of antiauthoritarian forces wrong Sudan, though it volition not beryllium capable to alteration the mode Sudan is governed oregon extremity the civilian war, without overmuch much proactive outer engagement successful the country."

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Nicholas Coghlan, a erstwhile Canadian diplomat successful Khartoum, was not arsenic hopeful, telling Toronto’s Globe and Mail that hardline factions wrong person Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s authorities confederation "will propulsion him present to disregard the U.S. and different imaginable mediators and spell each out," adding "they person thing further to suffer by holding back."