US President Donald Trump announced designating of Iran’s ‘Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’, an elite military force, as a terrorist organization.
It is for the first time that the United States designated another nation's military as a terrorist organization.
In retaliation, Iran declared the US Central Command, CentCOM– the Middle East based armed forces of America, as a terrorist organization.
The IRGC was formed after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran with a mission to defend the clerical regime.
It is now Iran’s most powerful security organization.