WASHINGTON — The State Department and Treasury Department jointly announced Tuesday that the US is designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as foreign terror groups.
Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, the leader of the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood, will be listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“These designations reflect the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to address Muslim Brotherhood chapters’ violence and destabilization wherever it occurs,” Rubio said in a statement.
“The United States will use all available tools to deprive these Muslim Brotherhood chapters of the resources to engage in or support terrorism.”
The Treasury Department is also designating the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood as SDGTs for aiding and abetting Hamas.
Treasury officials say that the chapter based in Egypt, where the Brotherhood was founded in 1928, has been coordinating and funding the Palestinian terror group for years — as well as taking money from Hamas to assist agitation meant to “destabilize” the Cairo government.
In Jordan, Muslim Brotherhood members also “materially assisted Hamas” and had “been involved in terrorism cases,” the officials added, despite the group having been “dissolved” by a judicial verdict in 2020 and outlawed by Amman this past April 23.
“Despite their peaceful public façade, both the Egyptian and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood branches have conspired to support Hamas’s terrorism and undermine the sovereignty of their own national governments,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John. K. Hurley.
The designations follow President Trump’s November executive order “to eliminate the capabilities and operations of Muslim Brotherhood chapters designated as foreign terrorist organizations … deprive those chapters of resources, and thereby end any threat such chapters pose to United States nationals or the national security of the United States.”
“For example, in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, attack in Israel, the military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to launch multiple rocket attacks against both civilian and military targets within Israel,” the executive order continued.
“A senior leader of the Egyptian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, on October 7, 2023, called for violent attacks against United States partners and interests, and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood leaders have long provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas.”
The Brotherhood has embarked on a long-term plan to “transform Western society from within” by embedding on US college campuses, according to a report the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
Trump’s order had requested Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to provide a report by Dec. 24, 2025, on whether the relevant chapters in Egypt, jordan and Lebanon could receive the terror designation.
The Treasury will now economically sanction all property or interests held by the three chapters in the US — as well as any other entities that are majority-owned by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Both Florida and Texas have previously designated the group as a foreign terrorist organization.
The PR arm for the Brotherhood did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
