The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dominican Republic confirmed the official designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Lebanese group Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. The decision responds to the compliance with international legal frameworks and resolutions that commit the country to global security protocols.
This measure of the Dominican government is based on three normative pillars: the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council, the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism and the current Dominican legislation on combating transnational organized crime.
Mechanisms of vigilance and control activated
With this official designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist entity, Dominican authorities will activate intensified surveillance protocols, restrictions on financial operations and controls on movements related to illicit financing and transnational networks linked to both organizations.
The mechanisms include monitoring of bank transfers, freezing of identified assets in Dominican territory, restrictions on entry and transit, and exchange of information with international intelligence financial and security organizations.
Regional security cooperation strategy
The designation of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organizations is part of a coordinated regional security strategy with the United States. The axes of collaboration include strengthening border controls, exchanging intelligence and joint operations against international organized crime and terrorism networks.
Dominican Republic thus joins other Latin American nations that have adopted similar measures. Costa Rica, Ecuador and Argentina implemented equivalent designations in recent months against Iranian entities and their allies in the Middle East, configuring a coordinated regional response to specific transnational threats.
International commitments and national security
The Dominican government maintains that this decision strengthens its commitments to the international community to ensure national and regional security stability. The designation of terrorists to these groups responds to documented risk and threat assessments by specialized United Nations agencies and the international intelligence community.
The measure also aims to prevent Dominican territories from being used as logistical, financial or recruitment platforms for activities linked to Hezbollah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, thus reinforcing control mechanisms over illicit capital flows and movements of people classified as a threat to security.
