Trump administration: Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood is ‘executing civilians on Iran’s orders’

By Christine Douglass-Williams | July 3, 2026

Muslim Brotherhood flag. Photo by NorthTension – Own work, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The Muslim Brotherhood showed its true colors on October 7, 2023, when its Iran-supported offshoot Hamas violently savaged Israelis. The American people are increasingly coming to understand that Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities are active and thriving inside America. So far, Egypt (the place of the Muslim Brotherhood’s origins), America, Canada, the EU, UK and Israel are recognized areas of Muslim Brotherhood activity. A new revelation, however, links Muslim Brotherhood activity in Sudan to the Islamic Republic of Iran; Sudanese Muslim Brothers are carrying out deadly orders from Tehran. “Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood is executing civilians on Iran’s orders,” by Amine Ayoub, Ynet News, July 2, 2026:

The Trump administration has just drawn a hard line under Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood, warning openly that fighters loyal to the movement are receiving training and support from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and threatening a fresh wave of sanctions against anyone who keeps that pipeline open.

Washington’s message on Sudan is blunt and leaves no room for ambiguity. Sudan’s Islamic Movement is using excessive violence against civilians to sabotage conflict resolution and spread its extremist ideology, and many of its fighters, trained and armed with Iranian help, have carried out mass executions of civilians. This is one of the clearest and most direct statements yet from Washington tying a Muslim Brotherhood affiliate to Iran’s terror machine, and it comes with an explicit threat that more punishment is coming.

This is not a new suspicion dressed up in diplomatic language. Washington designated Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood a global terrorist organization and a transnational criminal organization back in March, and last September it blacklisted the group’s Al Bara ibn Malik Brigade specifically over its brutal role in Sudan’s civil war and its ties to Tehran. Iran is branded once again as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, its Revolutionary Guard accused of funding and directing malign activity across the globe, and Sudan’s Islamists are now formally listed as one of its beneficiaries.

For Israel, the significance is not subtle. Every time a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot anywhere in the region gets folded into Iran’s orbit, it confirms what Jerusalem has argued for years in closed briefings and open testimony alike: political Islam and the Iranian axis are not rivals competing for the same turf, they are increasingly partners sharing weapons, training camps and a common enemy. Sudan now joins that grim ledger, and the fighters carrying it out are executing unarmed people in the name of an ideology that has already proven it exports violence far beyond its borders. This is not an isolated case study. It is the same pattern that has played out from Gaza to Lebanon to Yemen, an Islamist movement wrapping itself in religious language while functioning as a forward operating arm of the Iranian regime.

t is critical to remember that Iran’s influence is worldwide and relentless. The relationship between Sudan and Iran has a longer history than most people recognize; it is an ongoing marriage of convenience and a strategic alliance. Bedouin smugglers took Iran’s weapons through Sudan and the Egyptian desert, and then into Gaza via underground tunnels that Hamas built. These were critical supply lines that helped construct military arsenals in Gaza.

In March, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood to a specially, designated nationals list update. According to the Washington Institute, this designation targeted the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideological hub in North Africa, as Sudan’s ousted leader Omar al-Bashir, whose regime led Sudan to “became a hub for transnational Islamist activity,” had maintained it. “The country hosted Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s,” and few recognized the links between al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. The latter was connected to an “attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak” in 1995. “In addition, Khartoum under Bashir served as a meeting point for Iranian leadership.”

The post-Bashir era became uncertain for the Muslim Brotherhood amid four years of war, but Iran’s influence never vanished from the country. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan commanded, comprise the official military of Sudan, and they have been engaged in civil war against the rival Rapid Support Forces. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps trained many among the SAF. Iran seeks to help revitalize and boost the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, hence its orders of violence against civilians as part of its attempt to seize control.

The West is naively accepting of Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations (eg. CAIR) presenting themselves as “human rights” organizations that are looking out for Muslim civil liberties. A challenge to these misnomers and lies surrounding what Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations are really up to, and there needs to be an end to the characterization of them as “human rights” groups.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have both declared CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. In fact, DeSantis has just designated CAIR-Florida a “domestic terrorist group.”

Abbott and DeSantis have cited CAIR’s past and present ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terrorism funding trial in the history of America, in 2008.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a global entity, with global dominion as its goal. It tactics are carefully tailored depending on country. For North America, its memorandum states:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet.

Given its violent roots and the fact that bloody jihad is its declared mission and duty, it is remarkable that the West has tolerated its presence and expansion. In the Muslim Brotherhood’s own words:

 “…Jihad for Allah is not limited to the specific region of the Islamic countries. The Muslim homeland is one and is not divided. The banner of Jihad has already been raised in some of its parts, and it shall continue to be raised, with the help of Allah, until every inch of the land of Islam will be liberated, the State of Islam will be established…”

Means: Jihad – a mandatory religious duty

– “This is followed by the power of arms and weapons… This is the role of Jihad.”

– “Jihad is a religious public duty… incumbent upon the Islamic nation. Jihad is a personal duty to fend off the infidels’ attack on the nation…”

– “The youth should know that the problems of the Islamic world, such as Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, or the Philippines, are not issues of territories and nations, but of faith and religion. They are problems of Islam and the Muslims, and they can be resolved neither by negotiation nor by recognizing the enemy’s right to the Islamic land he stole. Rather, the only option is Jihad for Allah, and this is why Jihad is the way.”

– “The symbol of the [Muslim] Brotherhood is the book of Allah [the Quran] between two swords. The swords symbolize Jihad and the force that protects the truth represented in Allah’s book.”

– “…that is, go out to battle, oh believers, young and old, by foot or on horseback, under all circumstances and conditions…”

Timing: Don’t rush, prepare carefully for Jihad

– “The [Muslim] Brotherhood will never rush after the youth’s enthusiasm to carry out immature and unplanned actions, which will not alter the corrupt reality and may even harm Islamic activity, and will benefit the people of falsehood…”….

…Jihad against Israel:

– “Honorable brothers achieved Shahada (Martyrdom) on the soil of beloved Palestine, in 1947 and 1948, in their Jihad against the criminal, thieving gangs of Zion. The Imam and Shahid (Martyr) Hassan Al-Banna is considered a Shahid (Martyr) of Palestine, even though he was not killed on its soil.”

Trump said he would designate Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. As Robert Spencer commented: “If this really happens and has teeth, it could be a devastating blow to the pro-Sharia Muslim establishment in the U.S. All the major Muslim groups in this country are linked in various ways to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Yet the Trump administration has focused only on several branches of the Brotherhood in countries where it is not powerful or influential, not upon the Brotherhood in America or the organization as a whole.

Following the Trump administration’s declaration that the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan was “using excessive violence against civilians” under orders of Iran, it has become blatantly apparent how dangerous this group is. The Trump administration should focus on and confront the presence of Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities under America’s own roof.

Trump should set the precedent for dismantling the Muslim Brotherhood’s harmful presence in the West. Its various organizations have been tearing down the West — from free speech encroachments and the advancing of the Sharia to the incitement of violence via the Palestinian jihad and its “globalize the intifada” movement.