Welcome to Paz de the World. This is Tommy Vitor in the studio with Ben Rhodes.

Ready to roll, great to have you, man. We have a packed show today. First, our friend,

Kelly Magsman, will dial in to talk about Trump's designation to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,

a terrorist organization. So you'll hear from her. She's an expert. Then we're going to talk about

the Israeli elections, Chinese spies trying to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago, personnel issues, the

President, CC, visit the Oval Office from Egypt, and then Sudan and some of the Arabs bring 2.0,

like things we're seeing across Northern Africa and then Brexit. After that, you'll hear an

interview I taped last week with an author named Patrick Redden-Keefe. He has an incredible,

incredible new book out called, Saying Nothing. It's about the IRA and the troubles in Northern Ireland.

It's one of the best books I've ever read and it also is really relevant today because

Brexit could reignite the troubles in the conflict that really destroyed Northern Ireland for a

long time. So, packed show, and let's get into it. Okay, the first news item today has to do with Iran.

So Ben and I decided to get our favorite Iran expert on the line. Kelly Magsman, it's great

to have you. Good to be here, guys. So on Monday, Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Corps or IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization. It's an interesting timing to do this the day before

these Israeli elections. Yeah, what a coincidence, Tommy. What a coincidence, Kelly. That

policy process just really landed right there before. Yeah, that was amazing. That things work out.

So, Mags, the IRGC is an arm of the Iranian military. It carries out operations across the

Middle East and is led by some very bad people. You're an Iran expert. You've worked for Republicans.

You've worked for Democrats. I imagine a lot of people have debated this move previously.

Can you tell us like what the IRGC is and what this designation means? And if you think it's a good idea?

Sure. I mean, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who folks who don't follow Iran every day,

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