Iran: CIA, U.S. Army ‘terrorist organizations’

[IDemo]

Lawmakers in Tehran take a diplomatic offensive against Washington

AP -Updated: 43 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations.” The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

“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 hard-line dominated parliament said the two were terrorists, because they were involved in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, used depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supported the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombed and killed Iraqi civilians and tortured terror suspects in prisons.

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 remain silent over the parliament resolution and wait for U.S. reaction before making its decision.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21047176/

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[merh]

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[Eric J in MN]

3. Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton succeeded in pushing our countries closer to war.

She voted for Kyl-Lieberman.

[scarface2004]

4. this looks perfectly legitimate...time to go to war with the cia/us army then!

where do i sign up for this?!