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Trump wants to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a

US President Donald Trump plans to place the Muslim Brotherhood, the evil beast of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on the US blacklist of "terrorist organizations". "The president has spoken with his national security team and the leaders of the region who share his concern and this designation is being examined according to the internal process," said Sarah Sanders, a spokeswoman for AFP. word of the American executive. The placement of the Muslim Brotherhood on this list would allow the United States to impose sanctions on any person or organization with links to them. Created in 1928, this brotherhood is the oldest movement of Sunni Islamism. It has, in the course of its history, oscillated between pleas for an Islamic State and membership proclaimed in the democratic game. The announcement came three weeks after the visit to the White House of Sissi, who deposed his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013 before being elected to the presidency a year later. According to the New York Times, however, the President's initiative faces strong objections within the administration, particularly within the Pentagon. It could have many cascading consequences, including the need to further develop relations with Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The latter, who describes the current Egyptian president as "putschist", sometimes draws a parallel between the overthrow of Mr. Morsi and the coup attempt that targeted him in July 2016. Read the full article