US President Donald Trump has initiated steps to classify certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially-designated global terrorists, a move that would impose sanctions on one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements.
According to a White House fact sheet, Trump signed an executive order instructing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to prepare a report on whether Brotherhood factions in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan should be designated. The order requires that any designations be implemented within 45 days of the report’s submission.
The administration has accused Brotherhood groups in those countries of supporting or encouraging violent attacks against Israel and US allies, as well as providing material support to Hamas. The fact sheet stated: “President Trump is confronting the Muslim Brotherhood’s transnational network, which fuels terrorism and destabilization campaigns against US interests and allies in the Middle East.”
Founded in Egypt in the 1920s, the Muslim Brotherhood emerged as an Islamic political movement opposing secular and nationalist ideologies. Over the decades, it expanded across Muslim-majority countries, becoming a significant but often clandestine force in regional politics.
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