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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Elie Youssef - Washington

US Administration Reluctant to Remove IRGC from Terror List

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps troops march in a military parade in Tehran in 2016. (Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press)

The region covered by the US Central Command “is where we protect waterways so that global commerce can flow,” said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin, in remarks during a change of command ceremony at CENTCOM.

“It is where we fight terrorists who threaten our citizens. And it is where we work with our partners to confront instability from Iran and its proxies,” he added.

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