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Iran lawmakers brand U.S. army "terrorist" - report

29 Sep 2007 18:31:17 GMT
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TEHRAN, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers branded the U.S. army and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as "terrorists" in a statement read out at parlianment on Saturday, Iranian media said.

Signed by 215 members in the 290-seat legislature, it was an apparent response to reports that Washington is considering labelling a unit of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist organisation.

The MPs criticised the U.S. army and the CIA for what they called terrorist actions, the official IRNA news agency said, citing the World War Two atomic bombing of Japan, the Vietnam war as well as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples.

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