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Iranian Parliament votes to designate US Army and Pentagon as "terrorist entities"

07 January 2020 10:52 (UTC +04:00)

The Iranian parliament has passed a bill labelling the entire US military as a ‘terrorist entity’, further comlicating the prospects for a peaceful resolution of tensions with the United States, APA reports citing Sputnik.

The Iranian parliament’s presiding board earlier called Soleimani’s hit an act of ‘state-sponsored terrorism’.

Soleimani was the chief of Iran’s Quds Force, an elite unit responsible for clandestine military and intelligence operations abroad. He was widely credited with helping Iraq defeat Daesh* and was considered to be one of Iran’s most prominent political figures, so his killing was interpreted by many in Iran as the de-facto declaration of war.

The US claimed that Soleimani was behind the rocket strike on an Iraqi base near Kirkuk in late December that killed an American contractor and injured several military personnel. The US also said, without providing evidence, that he was plotting more attacks on US assets.