Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, says it is �high time� for the United States to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, Gorka echoed recent remarks by Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, who called the Brotherhood �the progenitor� and �grandfather of all modern global jihadism.�

�There are pushes in both houses of Congress to declare the Brotherhood a foreign terror group,� Gorka said, noting that several Arab nations, including Jordan, have already taken that step. �We have to recognize that if Arab Muslim nations like Jordan have designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization, it may be high time for us to do so as well.�

Gorka went on to outline the administration�s broader Middle East strategy, saying that Trump views the region through a single lens: Iran. �When the president looks at the region, he doesn�t slice it down into cylinders of excellence,� Gorka explained. �He doesn�t care if you�re the Syrian desk officer or the natural resources expert. He has one overlay for the whole area of responsibility, and that one metric, that one prism, is Iran.�

The White House adviser also praised Israel�s operations in Syria, asserting they have �rewritten the map for the next 50 to 100 years.� He argued that with the fall of the Assad regime, �the murderous mullahs of Iran do not have safe harbor and a resupply route through Syria.� Israel�s actions, he said, amount to �one of the greatest things Israel has achieved for the modern world in the last decade or more.� Gorka added that Trump has extended �the offer of a lifetime� to Syria�s new leadership, while expressing hope that Israel and Turkey could resolve their tensions by �finding the bare minimum overlap in the Venn diagram.�

On Israel�s northern border, Gorka described Hezbollah as gravely weakened, saying the Iranian-backed terror group is �not at death�s door� but �in the ICU.� He also dismissed the idea that anti-Israel sentiment is rising within the Republican Party, calling it the work of �half a dozen very loud people on Twitter and Rumble.� By contrast, he insisted, the 80 million Americans who re-elected Trump �actually have a very special place in their heart for Israel.�

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