The USA has three Islamist branches
Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt on their terror list. “The United States will use all available means to deprive these branches of the Muslim Brotherhood of the resources they need to engage in or support terrorist activities,” US Secretary of State wrote Marco Rubio on Platform X.
Assets of members of these groups are included in this measure USA frozen. US citizens are not allowed to do business with affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 Egypt founded, is now banned there and was founded in Cairo Officially classified as a terrorist organization in 2013. Their goal is the Islamization of society. Since its founding, other branches of the Sunni Islamist movement have emerged in various countries. Those too Palestinian Hamas has its origins in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jordan had the organization banned in April 2025. It was previously the largest opposition party in the kingdom. The terrorist organization Hamas emerged in the 1980s from a Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt welcomes the US decision
Rubio wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood’s regional organizations posed a threat to the United States. A statement from the U.S. Treasury Department said the groups posed as civil society organizations, but behind the scenes openly and actively supported terrorist groups such as Hamas.
In the USA, US President Donald Trump already had A classification procedure will take place at the end of November 2025 of parts of the Muslim Brotherhood initiated as a terrorist organization. In most Arab countries, the Brotherhood is banned and classified as a terrorist organization. The group itself states that it is now non-violent and is pursuing its Islamist goals peacefully.
Egypt welcomed the US decision. The group’s extremist ideology poses a threat to regional and international security and stability. The US decision is in line with Egypt’s stance, media quoted the Egyptian government as saying. Egypt, like other states in the region, has suffered from the organization’s crimes for decades.
