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Potential US blacklisting of IRGC may lead to open conflict in Mideast: Analyst

A political commentator warns that a reported US plan to blacklist Iran’s elite IRGC force could be a “prelude to an overt military conflict” between the two sides in the Middle East’s friction zones.

Political commentator Roozbeh Aliabadi warns about the repercussions of a reported plan by the administration of US President Donald Trump to label Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization,” saying such a move could serve as a “prelude to an overt military conflict” in the Middle East region’s conflict zones such as Syria.