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Iran has disclosed on Tuesday that if the United States chooses to designate designate its elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, they would be joining the camp of terrorists themselves.

The IRGC is Iran's most powerful security force and U.S. President Donald Trump has been very critical of them in recent times especially as he aims to curb Iran's influence in the region.

"The world should be thankful to the Revolutionary Guards for its fight against terrorists, especially against Daesh (Islamic State)," Iranian government spokesman Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said in a weekly news conference broadcast live on state television.

"So by taking a stance against the Revolutionary Guards and designating it a terrorist group, the Americans would be joining the terrorists' camp," he added.

President Trump is widely expected to make a decision on whether to decertify the deal Iran struck in 2015 with world powers to curb its nuclear program in return for the lifting of most international sanctions.

IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Sunday that if Washington designated the Guards a terrorist organization, they "will consider the American army to be like Islamic State all around the world."

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Monday that Tehran would give a "firm, decisive and crushing" response if the United States goes ahead with such a plan.