Biden Admin Mulls Replacing IRGC On Terrorist Org List With Parents Who Want Transparent Curricula

“The list plays a vital role in communicating this administration’s approach to handling terrorism.”

Washington, March 31 – White House officials acknowledged today they will weigh not simply the removal of one of the most malignant, violent groups on the planet from a roster of organizations designated for sanctions and imposing severe consequences on individuals and entities for contacts with them, but maintaining the relevance and  robustness of the database by inserting instead Americans who have expressed concern over what their children learn in the classroom.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan disclosed in recent conversations with journalists that the administration will likely continue to accommodate the regime in Tehran, hoping to induce it to reach agreement on a nuclear weapons development oversight deal, by removing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of Designated Terrorist Organizations. The IRGC coordinates, supports, and often participates in attacks on the interests of Iran’s declared enemies, supplies and trains allied terrorist groups, and spearheads the Ayatollahs’ efforts to establish regional hegemony by violence and fomenting instability it can exploit. In the meantime, they said, the same list, depleted since the administration already removed the Yemeni Houthi group from it last year, will see the addition of parents who disagree with the policy decisions and assumptions of their local school boards.

“The president views the integrity of the list as being of paramount importance, unlike his dishonest critics claim,” explained Psaki. “The list plays a vital role in communicating this administration’s approach to handling terrorism, and it’s crucial that we maintain an updated, accurate picture of the national security situation that it helps us paint. In keeping with that approach, we must show the requisite flexibility that diplomacy sometimes entails, which is why the removal from that list of a central Iranian tool of statecraft is under presidential consideration. At the same time, we acknowledge that gutting the list makes its existence and purpose of limited, even counterproductive, utility, and are therefore also open to preserving the integrity of the list by including instead the dangerous activists who make demands, threats, and other unwelcome statements about their so-called rights as taxpayers and the presumptuous attitude they display toward the public education system, as if they may have any say it what goes on behind closed classroom doors.”

“The government doesn’t belong in your bedroom,” added Sullivan, repeating a trope from the rhetorical realm of the abortion issue, “and you don’t belong in the government’s room, which in this case includes the classroom where the government fertilizes young minds with the correct ideas, unhindered by wrong-thinking, ignorant, and probably bigoted parents. I don’t know where they got the treasonous idea that taxpayers have any say in what government does.”

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