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Personnel, service, intelligence, or other official records corroborate that each named individual was a former member of the IRGC and that the IRGC designation as an FTO occurred in 2019.
The State Department designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in April 2019; official State Department and Federal Register notices record that action. The DHS press release naming Ehsan Khaledi, Mohammad Mehrani, and Morteza Nasirikakolaki states all three are former IRGC members; I found corroborating government documentation for the 2019 FTO designation and contemporaneous reporting of the DHS announcement identifying the three individuals as former IRGC members. Verdict: True — the evidence supports both parts of the statement: the IRGC was designated an FTO in 2019, and DHS publicly identified all three named deportees as former IRGC members.