Iran blacklists US Pentagon as ‘terrorist organization’

Tehran: The Iranian Parliament on Tuesday ratified a motion dubbed as “harsh revenge”, that considers all members of the US Pentagon and those responsible for the death of Major General Qasem Soleimani as “terrorist forces”.
The triple-urgency motion is a modification of a previously ratified bill on April 23, 2019, that designated the US Central Command (CENTCOM) as a terrorist organization in retaliation to the same designation imposed on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by Washington, the Tehran-based Mehr News Agency said in a report.
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said in Tuesday’s open session that in the previous anti-US law, CENTCOM was designated as a terrorist entity.
“Today, following the cruel US measure in assassinating General Soleimani, the responsibility of which was accepted by the US President, we modify the previous law and announce that all members of Pentagon, commanders, agents and those responsible for the martyrdom of Gen Soleimani will be considered as terrorist forces,” Larijani was quoted as saying in the report.
All of Iran nation supports the resistance, he added. The modified law also allows withdrawal of $223 million to the IRGC’s Quds Force from the National Development Fund of Iran for the next two months, added Larijani.
He said that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s permission to withdraw the fund has been obtained, the Mehr report added. Following its ratification, MPs chanted anti-US slogans at the Parliament. (IANS)