Fairleft: Iran Labels CIA 'Terrorist Organization'

Iran Labels CIA 'Terrorist Organization'

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI – 1 day ago

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the U.S. Army as "terrorist organizations," a largely symbolic response to a U.S. Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

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The parliament said the Army and the CIA were terrorists because of the atomic bombing of Japan; the use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; support of the killings of Palestinians by Israel; the bombing and killing Iraqi civilians and the torture of imprisoned terror suspects.

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"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 290-member Iranian parliament. ...

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While the [U.S. Senate resolution] attracted overwhelming bipartisan support, a small group of Democrats said they feared that labeling the state-sponsored organization a terrorist group could be interpreted as a congressional authorization of military action in Iran.

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Lebanon's senior Shiite Muslim cleric also criticized the Senate's resolution, saying Sunday that it amounted to "a war declaration" against Tehran.

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The "classification of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, even though it (the Guard) represents the Iranian army and is a major reserve of the Iranian armed forces, cannot be viewed except as a war declaration," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the top religious authority for Lebanon's 1.2 million Shiites, said in a statement.

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Iran defense minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar: "Today, the US army and CIA agents are trying to justify their illegitimate presence in the region through assassination, abduction and the massacre of innocent people, and through smuggling weapons and setting off explosions, while they accuse Iraq's neighbors of the crimes that they themselves commit."

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