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Iran's Parliament Signs Resolution to Label CIA, Army as 'Terrorist Organizations'
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| LatinLover |
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.
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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| Lebezniatnikov |
| Haha, if this escalation between the two sides recently weren't so precipitous, this would actually be quite funny! |
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| LatinLover |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Haha, if this escalation between the two sides recently weren't so precipitous, this would actually be quite funny! |
This is not funny! Our brave and men and women are not terrorist. We have the finest and the most professional military men in the world.
Clearly we are not terrorists, the US has all the right to label the Quods as a terrorist organization. These thugs train Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by LatinLover
This is not funny! Our brave and men and women are not terrorist. We have the finest and the most professional military men in the world.
Clearly we are not terrorists, the US has all the right to label the Quods as a terrorist organization. These thugs train Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups. |
It's funny (ironic) because a. we called them a terrorist organization, and now they're calling us terrorists and b. their allegations (depleted uranium shells, etc.) are pretty much true.
And for a long time, the CIA practiced political assassination. If the Iranian Guard were to assassinate Sarkozy next month, the whole world would call it a terrorist act, and yet the CIA was always immune to the criticism. In their own sick and twisted way, Iran is just drawing attention to that. |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by LatinLover
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.
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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Greaaat. This article came out of the neocon hole fox news, owned by Rupert Murdoch..Hardly a bastion of objective journalism..
Anyways...
I love how they label the Iranian parliament hardline.. I guess if they don't agree with the US agenda, they must be hardline right? Bush needs to read up on the UN Charter in sovereignty and SELF-DETERMINATION!!
The Iranian parliament is elected to 4 year terms by popular elections. They have a right to be hardline toward commercial imperialism just as the US is hardline against opposition to its commercial interests. |
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| Magnetonium |
I would like to see evidence that Iranian Revolutionary Guard was involved in terrorist / terrorist trainign activity ... until then I dont see why it was appropriate to label it such, and this Iranian rebuttal is no big deal. Iranian law to label CIA/US army terrorist is of little consequence, there's plenty of propaganda on Iranian television already ... and some of it is sadly true. Americans should have weighed in the consequences and benefits vs. disadvantages of passing their law first. It will not make the Middle East a more peaceful and more stable region.
The only reason it makes sense that Americans did their thing first is in anticipation of an upcoming military operation to overthrow Iranian regime, so that handling of Iranian officials would be much easier. But, history has shown that American-led coups most of the time never lead to better times years ahead down the road (the reason for current Iranian "problem"). |
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| Purple |
| +1 for this move, I think Iran Parliament should label whole USA as an 'Axis of Evil', hell of earth that spreads only death and destruction of innocent civilians, and label US Army as an terrorist organisation. USA is a terrorist nation which wants blood of all muslims on this earth and total destruction of Middle East (Exception: Israel). |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Purple
+1 for this move, I think Iran Parliament should label whole USA as an 'Axis of Evil', hell of earth that spreads only death and destruction of innocent civilians, and label US Army as an terrorist organisation. USA is a terrorist nation which wants blood of all muslims on this earth and total destruction of Middle East (Exception: Israel). |
I don't disagree with your sentiment that the US has done some things that I'm certainly not proud of, but I think that's going a little bit far. |
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| Purple |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I don't disagree with your sentiment that the US has done some things that I'm certainly not proud of, but I think that's going a little bit far. |
Ya, I agree with you, I exagerated the situation.. just like US did after 9/11. |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I don't disagree with your sentiment that the US has done some things that I'm certainly not proud of, but I think that's going a little bit far. |
Just a wee bit..:p
There is no axis of evil existing between any nations. The Bush Admin and its benefactors are the axis of evil.. |
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| CHRles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Purple
USA is a terrorist nation which wants blood of all muslims on this earth and total destruction of Middle East |
Is this the part where Borat comes in and tells you that his sister is the number 4 prostitue in all of Kazakhstan? |
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| Purple |
| quote: | Originally posted by CHRles
Is this the part where Borat comes in and tells you that his sister is the number 4 prostitue in all of Kazakhstan? |
Nopes, its the part where Borat sings Kazak's national anthem in American Anthem tune.. |
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