The U.S. government is involved in intense discussions over naming all or part of Iran 's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group in a move that would effectively declare "open season" on the organization, a senior official told CNN.
If made, the designation would come in the form of an executive order from President George W. Bush, the State Department official said.
An Iranian official dismissed the report as "psychological-propaganda warfare."
Such a move would allow the Treasury Department to go after the finances of the group and those who do business with it.
"It would basically declare open season on these guys," the official said, adding that the move is being taken because of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) support for "all the bad actors" -- insurgents in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan and other terrorist groups in the Middle East like Hezbollah and Hamas. Full text
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