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What reasons did the U.S. Department of the Treasury give for designating Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood branches as terrorist organizations in 2026?
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Muslim Brotherhood
Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.
In 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Lebanese branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. According to the department's press release, the primary reasons for this designation were that these specific branches were accused of promoting and glorifying terrorism, as well as providing material assistance to Hamas.12