Obama laid out his position on the designating-Iranian-Revolutionary-Guard-terrorists bill in a very artfully written op-ed in the Manchester Union Leader.
Note how he opposes the bill (and therefore set up a dovish sounding counterpart to then prime primary opponent Hillary Clinton) and briefly–just six words!–agrees that they are actually terrorists.
Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.