{"id":755826,"date":"2021-09-15T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=755826"},"modified":"2021-09-15T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:06:25","slug":"gop-sens-pen-letter-to-secy-blinken-calling-on-taliban-to-be-designated-as-foreign-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sens-pen-letter-to-secy-blinken-calling-on-taliban-to-be-designated-as-foreign-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP sens. pen letter to Secy. Blinken calling on Taliban to be designated as foreign terrorist organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fgop-sens-pen-letter-to-secy-blinken-calling-on-taliban-to-be-designated-as-foreign-terrorist-organization%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=755826&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 id=\"attachment_2520885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2520885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media with Lithuania\u2019s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis (not shown) in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department ahead of a meeting in Washington, D.C. on September 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:04 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A group of Republican senators have called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to officially designate the Taliban as a foreign terrorist organization. Reports detailing the letter said it points out the Taliban has appointed a known terrorist wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as interior minister.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also noted given the Taliban\u2019s history of supporting terror attacks, the group presents a significant threat to the U.S. The letter was signed by Sens. Joni Ernst (Iowa), Rick Scott (Fla.), Dan Sullivan (Alaska) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince reestablishing control of Afghanistan, the Taliban resumed the same murderous and oppressive habits that characterized their leadership tenure prior to the arrival of U.S. forces in 2001,\u201d stated the letter. \u201cEven as the administration concluded the withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces from Afghanistan, we saw public attacks on individuals, beatings of women and girls, and search teams actively pursuing allies and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW \ud83d\udea8 I\u2019m leading an effort calling on the Biden Administration to recognize the Taliban as a terrorist organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fhl46KSGSr\">https:\/\/t.co\/fhl46KSGSr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HdJVMlxqT\">pic.twitter.com\/2HdJVMlxqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJoniErnst\/status\/1438126839390736387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Congressman Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) each introduced resolutions on Tuesday saying the Taliban should be designated as terrorists.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/48k-la-residents-still-without-power-after-hurricane-ida-tropical-storm-nicholas\/\">48K La. Residents Still Without Power After Hurricane Ida, Tropical Storm Nicholas<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media with Lithuania\u2019s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis (not shown) in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department ahead of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755826","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\/755826","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755826\/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=755826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}