US labels the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.
This will be done as strongly and decisively as possible,” US President Donald Trump was quoted as saying by the US news agency Just News on Sunday. The final documents are being prepared.
Jordan was the latest Arab country to ban the Muslim Brotherhood earlier this year after its security agencies foiled a sabotage plot.
Other countries, including Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates, have outlawed the movement.
The Muslim Brotherhood is one of the region’s oldest and most influential Islamist organizations, currently led by Mohamed Badie in Egypt. He has been sentenced to life in prison and the death penalty on charges of planning violent attacks.
Badie and about 37 others were charged with conspiring to incite unrest after the military ouster of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, himself a Muslim Brotherhood figure, in July 2013.
In 2013, following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, who was affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian army arrested Badie and several of his close associates in their office.
At the time, it was announced that they were armed with weapons and ammunition and intended to carry out actions.
The Egyptian Criminal Court had previously sentenced Badie and 64 members of the group to life imprisonment in a verdict on charges of committing violent crimes and murder in the province of “Minya” during the dispersal of pro-Muslim Brotherhood gatherings in “Rab’a al-Adawiya” Square in 2013.
In August 2013, the city of “Al-Adwa” in the province of “Minya” in Egypt witnessed clashes and riots during which a police station in the city was attacked and an officer was killed. The Egyptian government has accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being involved in the attack.