More Pressure Put on Iran to Curb Terrorist Activities

The State Department has increased the terror-related designation of four Islamic groups it has accused of attacking U.S. sites in Iraq.

This follows the government’s naming on Tuesday of more than a dozen people involved with facilitating secretive financial transactions on behalf of Iran to launder currency for the Iranian leadership.

The State Department said in a release Wednesday that the four terrorist groups it is closely monitoring are now labeled as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, a heightened level of scrutiny compared to their previous designation as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

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