It’s time to rethink US terrorism designations
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
Barbara Slavin directs the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Formerly, Slavin was a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2006, and a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, where she authored a report titled Mullahs, Money, and Militias. She is also the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation.
The State Department’s terrorist lists have become politicized and counterproductive.
The Trump administration claims to support Iranian citizens, but it won’t put its anti-Iran hysteria on hold for a minute to help them out amid a pandemic.