The Russian Supreme Court placed the Muslim Brotherhood on a list of 17 terrorist organizations, claiming it was threatening Russia's national security and seeking to establish an Islamic caliphate stretching from Central Asia to the Caucasus.
"The Jordanian government respects the independent work of the Russian security services, but considers it necessary to clarify the specifics of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood with a view to correcting the published list," a Jordanian government spokesman said on national television.
He said the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood is a peaceful organization that is widely represented in the country's political life as an opposition force, and has its deputies in parliament.
The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood group participated in parliamentary elections in 1989 through its political wing, the Islamic Action Front, and has had the largest faction in parliament since then.
At the same time, it is part of world-wide Islamic movement whose militants fought against Soviet troops in Afghanistan, and whose leadership declared its support for anti-federal separatist movements in the North Caucasus, thereby threatening Russia's security and territorial integrity.
