As the Biden administration prepares to sign a final deal with Iran that has been lambasted by numerous experts as nothing short of a major appeasement of the Islamic regime, Washington is now also weighing the removal of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist in return for a public commitment from Iran to de-escalation in the region.

Former U.S. special Middle East envoy Dennis Ross mocked this decision, tweeting on Thursday: “Tying the delisting of the IRGC to Iran promising to de-escalate in the region makes us look naive.” Ross said he believes that such promises by Iran are not credible.