Support for the Israeli position:
US Chief of Staff Mark Miley announced today (Thursday) that he sees the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, and he opposes removing the organization from the list of terrorist organizations. The Israeli government.
"I believe the Revolutionary Guards are a terrorist organization and I do not support removing it from the list of those organizations," General Miley told the Senate Armed Forces Committee.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who also appeared before the committee, declined to comment on the issue.
Last month, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett also conveyed the Israeli message to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
According to the published report, the US positively considered the move on the condition that the Revolutionary Guards organization would not act against American forces in the Middle East.
Anthony Blinken,
As mentioned, after reporting on the possibility of removing the Revolutionary Guards from the black list, Prime Minister Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid launched an unusual attack on the administration.
"Insult to victims and erasure of documented reality," the two said, among other things.
Last month, during the "Negev Summit", Lapid told Blinken in a difficult conversation that the Israeli foreign minister told him: "I would never reach an agreement with any terrorist organization, which says that in exchange for not harming me, I will agree that he will harm Americans. Equally can not "In exchange for removing the Revolutionary Guards from the list, the Iranians will pledge not to harm the Americans."
Blinkan did not give a clear answer and only said that no decision had yet been made on the matter.
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