Iran's Parliament Signs Resolution to Label CIA, Army as 'Terrorist Organizations'

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army "terrorist organizations," in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons.

"The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror," said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio.


The resolution, which is seen as a diplomatic offensive against the U.S., urges Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to treat the two as terrorist organizations. It also paves the way for the resolution to become legislation that — if ratified by the country's hardline constitutional watchdog — would become law.

The government is expected to wait for U.S. reaction before making its decision. In Washington, the White House declined to comment Saturday.
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On Wednesday, the Senate voted 76-22 in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. While the proposal attracted overwhelming bipartisan support, a small group of Democrats said they feared labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military force in Iran.

The Bush administration had already been considering whether to blacklist an elite unit within the Revolutionary Guard, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial sanctions.

The U.S. legislative push came a day after Ahmadinejad told world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that his country would defy attempts to impose new sanctions by "arrogant powers" seeking to curb its nuclear program, accusing them of lying and imposing illegal penalties on his country.

He said the nuclear issue was now "closed" as a political issue and Iran would pursue the monitoring of its nuclear program "through its appropriate legal path," the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated over Washington accusations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and has been supplying Shiite militias in Iraq with deadly weapons used to kill U.S. troops. Iran denies both of the allegations
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Tit for tat goes on!
 
"Anything you can do I can do better..."
 
Tit for tat yawn
 
Oh no Iran may place a freeze on any funds being diverted through their nation to the US Army and CIA! Oh wait, that doesn't matter.

Since its non-binding I don't really see it much of a matter, unless they decide to capture some American soldier and try him for terrorism or something.
 
Well, obviously I wouldn't recommed this sort of action; labelling the military of the US terrorist is bad for diplomacy. However, CIA is a terrorist organization, that's uncontriversial if we look at their own definition of terrorism.
 
Ah, American Democracy has caught on in Iran: the legislative body is wasting its time and the taxpayers' money on non-binding resolutions!
 
El_Machinae said:
I can't see why they'd label the CIA with the same brush as the US Army
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They are killing civs which btw is a war crime. (It doesn't matter if 1 person does it or a few that makes the whole armyt responsible for the "loose cannons!")
 
The CIA targets civilians? That's news to me!


Now, I have been in a terrorist organization! I guess that makes me pretty badass, even in the eyes of islamofascists.
 
Stewbert 08 said:
Let's match up the CIA and Iran and see which group has participated in the overthrow of a greater number of democratically elected governments!
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CIA by a landslide. Hell, Iran should be kissing the CIA's ass, if it wasn't for them, the chain of events leading to the creation of the Islamic Republic would not have occured.
 
Yeah, see, this would be tit for tat if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had conspired with and paid off American White Nationalists to overthrow the democratically elected government in Washington and install a crackpot redneck dictator who would rule the USA with an iron fist for several decades and later have to be flown to Iran for medical treatment, sparking a populist revolution in New York.

Since that's not what it says in MY history book, it's less "tit for tat" and more "u just got pwned."
 
Tat (well, tatties) is slang for potato in Scottish.
 
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