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Security & Justice
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Opinion
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Sports
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Wednesday 14 January 2026 11:37:41
US Labels Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan as ‘Terrorists’
The United States has designated Muslim Brotherhood organisations in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as “terrorist” groups, as Washington intensifies its crackdown on Israel’s rivals across the world.
The decision on Tuesday came weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing his administration to start the process of blacklisting the groups.
The US Department of the Treasury labelled the groups in Jordan and Egypt as “specially designated global terrorists”, and the State Department blacklisted the Lebanese organisation with a more serious designation – “foreign terrorist organization” (FTO).
The Trump administration cited support for the Palestinian group Hamas and “activities against Israeli interests in the Middle East” as the reason behind targeting the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood purport to be legitimate civic organisations while, behind the scenes, they explicitly and enthusiastically support terrorist groups like Hamas,” the US Treasury said in a statement.
Salah Abdel Haq, acting general guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, said the group “categorically rejects this designation and will pursue all legal avenues to challenge this decision which harms millions of Muslims worldwide”.
Abdel Haq suggested on Tuesday that pressure from Israel and the United Arab Emirates in Washington drove the Trump administration’s decision.
“We deny all allegations that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has directed, funded, provided material support for or engaged in terrorism,” he told Al Jazeera in a statement.
Washington’s designations make it illegal to provide material support to the groups. They also impose economic sanctions to choke the groups’ revenue streams. The FTO label carries the added penalty of banning the groups’ members from entering the US.
The Muslim Brotherhood chapter in Lebanon, known as al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, is represented in the Lebanese Parliament. It backed Hezbollah in its “support front” in solidarity with Gaza against Israel, which culminated in an all-out war in September 2024.
On Thursday, the group stressed that it is a licensed Lebanese political and social movement operating openly under the law for decades.
“This move is a political and administrative American decision, not based on any Lebanese or international judicial ruling, and has no legal effect within Lebanon, where the sole authority remains the Lebanese Constitution, the applicable laws, and the Lebanese state institutions,” al-Jamaa al-Islamiya said in a statement.
In Jordan, the group won 31 House of Representatives seats in the 2024 elections through its political arm, the Islamic Action Front.
But Amman banned the organisation last year, accusing it of links to what the Jordanian government called a sabotage plot.
Cairo has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood and launched a sweeping crackdown against the group’s leaders and members since 2013, driving the organisation underground and into exile.
On Tuesday, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the US designation of the Egyptian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as global “terrorists” and called it a “pivotal step”.
The ministry in a statement that Washington’s decision “reflects the danger of this group and its extremist ideology and the direct threat it poses to regional and international security and stability”.