Executive Order 14362: Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists
An executive order directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to start a process for considering whether certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations and as specially designated global terrorists. Executive Order 14362 was signed at the White House on Nov. 24, 2025, and published in the Federal Register on Nov. 28, 2025.
The order does not itself designate any group. It sets out a review and a later step on designations. It says the process covers chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood or other units, including the ones in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt.
The order states that the chapters in those three countries take part in, help carry out, or back campaigns of violence and destabilization that hurt their regions, United States citizens, and United States interests. It says that after the attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the armed wing of the chapter in Lebanon joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions in multiple rocket attacks on civilian and military targets in Israel. It also says a senior leader of the Egyptian chapter called that day for violent attacks against United States partners and interests, and that leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan have for a long time given material support to Hamas’s militant wing. The order says those activities threaten U.S. civilians in the Levant and elsewhere in the Middle East, and the safety and stability of regional partners.
The order states a United States policy of cooperating with regional partners to eliminate the capabilities and operations of any Muslim Brotherhood chapters designated under the order, to deprive those chapters of resources, and to end any threat they pose to United States nationals or national security.
Within 30 days of the order, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury must send the President a joint report by way of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. They must first consult the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. The report is to address whether any chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood or other units, including the ones in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, should be designated.
Within 45 days after that report, whichever of the Secretary of State or the Secretary of the Treasury has the relevant duty must take all appropriate action on the designations. The order ties the foreign-terrorist-organization step to the immigration law used for those designations. It ties the specially designated global terrorist step to the emergency economic-powers law and to Executive Order 13224 of Sept. 23, 2001, on blocking property and prohibiting transactions with people who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism. The order does not say that it revokes or amends that 2001 order.
The order says it is to be carried out consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. It states that it does not create any right or benefit that a party can enforce in court against the United States, its departments, or its officers. It assigns the cost of publishing the order to the Department of State.