[ti:Trump Considers Adding to List of Terrorist Groups] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.40]The United States last added a group to its list [00:04.64]of Foreign Terrorist Organizations on June 30, 2016. [00:12.16]On that day, the Obama administration [00:16.20]put al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinental on the list. [00:21.48]It said the group carried out attacks in Pakistan [00:26.56]and murdered writers and activists in Bangladesh. [00:31.68]President Donald Trump is considering adding two more groups: [00:38.48]the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. [00:44.36]Senator Ted Cruz of Texas lost out to Trump [00:50.40]for the Republican Party presidential nomination. [00:55.16]He and other Republicans in Congress last month proposed bills [01:00.96]that ask Trump to consider adding the Brotherhood [01:05.48]and Iran's Revolutionary Guard to the terrorist list. [01:11.24]"It is time to call this enemy by its name [01:16.48]and speak with clarity and moral authority," Cruz said. [01:22.12]The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is Iran's main security group. [01:30.24]It also controls large parts of Iran's economy [01:35.30]and is a major influence on its politics. [01:39.88]Opponents of naming the Iranian Guard a terrorist organization [01:45.98]worry the move could do more harm than good. [01:50.84]They say it likely would increase support for Iranian hardliners, [01:58.04]reducing the influence of moderate leaders. [02:03.84]The Muslim Brotherhood wants countries to be governed by Islamic Law. [02:11.00]The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt in 2012. [02:19.62]But he was removed by the military, led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, one year later. [02:31.32]After taking over as the country's president, [02:35.32]el-Sisi has banned the Muslim Brotherhood. [02:39.64]And he has been calling on the U.S. to add the group to its terrorist list. [02:48.56]There is also opposition to putting the Muslim Brotherhood on the terrorist list. [02:56.02]The Council on American-Islamic Relations [03:00.68]works to protect civil liberties of American Muslims. [03:06.34]Ibrahim Cooper speaks for the group, [03:10.51]which also opposes President Trump's executive order [03:15.20]blocking travel to the U.S. from seven majority Muslim nations. [03:22.44]A court has put the order on hold. [03:27.36]Cooper told VOA that those pushing for the terrorist declaration [03:33.56]are trying to connect American Muslims to the Muslim Brotherhood. [03:39.38]Such a declaration, he said, would be used [03:44.28]"in a political campaign to attack" American Muslims. [03:49.80]But important advisers to President Trump [03:54.30]support the terrorist declaration for the Brotherhood. [03:59.00]Among them is his chief strategist Stephen Bannon, [04:04.64]the former head of Breitbart News. [04:08.88]He has called the Brotherhood the "foundation of modern terrorism." [04:15.72]Sean Spicer is the press secretary for President Trump. [04:21.04]He would not say if Trump is ready to declare the Brotherhood [04:26.72]and Iran's Revolutionary Guard terrorist organizations. [04:32.57]But he said the president's main goal is to "attack" [04:38.12]and "destroy" Islamic terrorism. [04:43.00]The Egyptian government recently ordered 1,500 people [04:49.72]to appear in court on charges of helping fund the Muslim Brotherhood. [04:55.88]Human Rights Watch said the action amounts [05:01.00]to "indiscriminate use" of Egypt's anti-terrorism laws. [05:08.05]American people and businesses are prohibited from doing business [05:14.56]with groups on the foreign terrorist organizations' list. [05:20.92]And the groups and their members are prohibited [05:24.85]from using any money or other holdings they own in the U.S. [05:30.92]Since 1997, 61 groups have been declared terrorist groups by the U.S. government. [05:41.76]The list includes some of the world's deadliest terrorist groups. [05:47.44]Among them are al-Qaida, the Islamic State, al-Shabaab, and Boko Haram. [05:58.24]Other well-known groups on the list include HAMAS, and Hezbollah. [06:05.56]Twelve of the groups were removed because they are no longer considered a threat. [06:12.64]Among those removed was the Khmer Rouge. [06:17.12]The group was responsible for 2 million deaths in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. [06:26.64]I'm Alice Bryant. [06:28.68]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM