Cuba rebukes Trump over U.S. withdrawal of state sponsors of terrorism..."Lack of reason".

The Cuban government slammed U.S. President Donald Trump for "attacking without cause" after he revoked his predecessor's decision to remove the country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Cuba's foreign ministry said, "It is a U.S. imperialist attack on the sovereignty and peace of the Cuban people that former President Joe Biden has decided to re-run the harsh economic war measures he has collected a few days ago."

He also criticized that "the US government's aggression is not surprising as evidence of a cruel goal to dominate us," and that "it will have a very detrimental impact on the Cuban economy, living standards, and development potential."

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also accused Trump of "threatening the Cuban people again with arrogant and truth-crushing fraud."

Russia, which maintains friendly relations with Cuba, said it intended to "destabilize the situation in Cuba and change the structure of power."

The 2023 Terrorism Report released by the U.S. State Department in December last year included North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Syria.

Designation as a state sponsor of terrorism is subject to sanctions, including restrictions on arms exports, control on exports of dual-use goods, restrictions on aid aid and financial-related restrictions.

The U.S. government designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982 for supporting the South American civil war.It was only removed from the list in 2015 during the Barack Obama administration after 33 years.

However, Trump re-designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in January 2021, shortly before the end of his first term in government, and when Biden lifted it, he rescinded Cuba's policy of lifting it upon taking office the day before.