The battle between Iran and United States has taken a new dimension as Iran’s parliament passed a bill on Tuesday, January 7 designating all US forces as terrorists over the killing of its top military officer, Qaseem Soleimani by a US air strike ordered by President Donald Trump.
WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the Iran’s parliament in a newly adopted bill have designated all US forces, employees of the Pentagon, affiliated organisations, agents, commanders and people who ordered the killing of Qaseem Soleimani, the commander of Revolutionary Guards.
According to the parliament, “Any aid to these forces, including military, intelligence, financial, technical, service or logistical, will be considered as cooperation in a terrorist act.”
The Iranian lawmakers also voted to bolster by €200 million, the coffers of the Quds Force – the foreign operations arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that was headed by Soleimani.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council also said that the blackisting came after the US designated its Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist organisation”.
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