{"id":1476296,"date":"2022-05-16T07:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476296"},"modified":"2022-05-16T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:59:46","slug":"biden-set-to-remove-5-extremist-groups-from-foreign-terrorist-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-set-to-remove-5-extremist-groups-from-foreign-terrorist-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Set to Remove 5 Extremist Groups From Foreign Terrorist List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-set-to-remove-5-extremist-groups-from-foreign-terrorist-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/CJB-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden is reportedly set to remove five extremist groups from the official Foreign Terrorist Organization list.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly claimed in a notification to Congress that each of the organizations is now defunct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe groups include Basque Fatherland and Liberty, also known as ETA; Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese doomsday cult; Kahane Kach, a radical Orthodox Jewish group, as well as two Islamic groups, the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, and Gama\u2019a al-Islamiyya,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-administration-to-remove-five-terror-groups-blacklist\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration dragged out briefings about this for months, then went radio silent, then quietly rushed it through hoping no one would notice until it was a done deal,\u201d a senior Republican congressional aide told the network. \u201cRepublicans on the Hill believe this was a dress rehearsal for trying to remove terrorism sanctions on the IRGC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Biden is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-considers-lifting-terrorist-designation-on-irans-irgc-in-exchange-for-public-commitment-report\">reportedly<\/a> considering lifting the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation on Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in exchange for a public commitment from Iran that they will play nice in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear deal is nearly complete, but Iran\u2019s demand that President Biden reverse Donald Trump\u2019s decision to designate the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization is a key remaining sticking point,\u201d Axios\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/us-weighs-deal-remove-irans-irgc-from-blacklist-c4aa21ed-5b57-4be7-bce6-3670a5dac453.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe IRGC is not only Iran\u2019s most feared military branch, it\u2019s also a powerful political and economic player. The terror designation means that even if Biden lifts nuclear sanctions to return to compliance with the deal, criminal penalties could still be imposed on anyone doing business with individuals or businesses connected to the IRGC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that Israel was \u201cconcerned about the idea, and in particular, the fact that the U.S. didn\u2019t demand specific commitments from Iran not to target the U.S. and its allies in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous Biden administration negotiators working on the Iran nuclear deal have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3-biden-admin-negotiators-leave-team-working-on-iran-nuclear-deal-because-biden-being-too-soft-report\">quit<\/a> their roles because they said that the administration was being too weak toward Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Biden removed another Iranian-backed terrorist organization from the list during the opening weeks of his presidency only to see the decision blow up in his face. Not only did Biden lift the terrorist designation on the Yemeni Houthis, he also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-already-struggling-on-international-stage-as-expert-warns-he-may-be-making-middle-east-war-worse\">announced<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 that the U.S. would no longer support Saudi Arabia\u2019s war against the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have since been responsible for numerous attacks in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/iran-plots-to-assassinate-ex-trump-official-biden-admin-resisting-public-indictments-due-to-iran-deal-hopes-report\">Iran Plots To Assassinate Ex-Trump Official, Biden Admin Resisting Public Indictments Due To Iran Deal Hopes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden is reportedly set to remove five extremist groups from the official Foreign Terrorist Organization list.Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly claimed in a notification to Congress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}