Argentina: Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan are terrorist organisations

Argentina’s government on Wednesday designated the Egyptian, Lebanese and Jordanian branches of the Muslim brotherhood as terrorist organisations.

President Javier Milei’s decision follows in the footsteps of his United States colleague Donald Trump, whose administration recently took the same action against the pan-Islamic movement founded in Egypt in 1928 and present throughout the Arab world.

The Milei government based its decision on “official reports attributing illegal activities across national borders, including acts of terrorism, public calls for violent extremism and links with other terrorist organisations with their potential impact on the Argentine Republic.”

“With this measure, preventive mechanisms for the early detection and punishment of terrorism and those who finance it have been reinforced so that members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies cannot act freely,” said a communiqué from the President’s Office.

The Muslim Brotherhood organisation has already been branded as terrorist in some countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Jordan banned it last April.

Milei’s Office informed that this move was adopted “in the framework of the international commitments assumed by the Argentine Republic in the struggle against terrorism and its financing and in compliance with the current national norms.”

The Muslim Brotherhood chapters have now been listed on Argentina’s RePET (Registro Público de Personas y Entidades vinculadas a Actos de Terrorismo y su Financiamiento) anti-terrorism registry.

“The decision, driven by President Javier G. Milei and adopted in co-ordination with the Foreign, National Security and Justice Ministries and SIDE intelligence services is based on official reports attributing illegal activities across national borders,” said Argentina.

The move boosts international cooperation with other countries, including the “United States, Israel, Paraguay, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt itself where this group was born, among others,” said Milei.

The decision “maintains the unwavering commitment to recognise the terrorists for who they are, as he [Milei] has already done with Hamas and more recently the Cartel de los Soles” in Venezuela, continued the statement.

“This government has the conviction that Argentina will realign itself with Western civilisation, respecting individual rights and institutions, while condemning and frontally combatting those who wish to destroy it,” it concludes.

– TIMES/AFP/NA