The Iranian government has responded to the Trump administration’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization with a similar symbolic gesture. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Jarrett Blanc about what all this means. Blanc is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He worked as the lead coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation at the US Department of State under President Barack Obama.
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