Iran’s parliament voted Saturday to designate the CIA and the US Army as “terrorist organisations”, a largely symbolic response to a US Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The parliament said the US army and the CIA were terrorists because of the atomic bombing of Japan; the use of depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq; support of the killings of Palestinians by Israel; the bombing and killing Iraqi civilians and the torture of imprisoned terror suspects.

“The aggressor US 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 290-member Iranian parliament. The resolution, which urges Ahmadinejad’s government to treat the two as terrorist organisations, would become law if ratified.