The Iranian parliament has unanimously passed a bill designating the United States’ forces as terrorists over the assassination of top Military Commander Qassem Soleimani in an air attack in Iraq last week.
Soleimani, the popular head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’
Foreign Operations Arm Quds Force, was killed in a United States drone attack outside Baghdad airport, ratcheting up tensions between the arch-foes.
Under the newly adopted bill, the entire United States forces and employees of the Pentagon and affiliated organizations, agents and commanders and those who ordered the martyrdom of Soleimani were designated as terrorists.
The bill is an amendment to a previous motion passed in April last year which designated the United States Central Command as a terrorist organization and declared the United States a State sponsor of terrorism.
Tensions between Iran and the United States have seriously escalated after Soleimani’s assassination, with Iranian leaders pledging to retaliate and avenge his death.
Yesterday, tens of thousands of mourners gathered in the city of Kerman, Soleimani’s hometown, for his burial, marking the end of a three-day mourning period.
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