Iranian lawmakers have approved a motion designating US Army and Pentagon as terrorist organizations in response to assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani.
Iran’s parliament on January 7 unanimously voted for a motion to designate the U.S. Army and the Pentagon as terrorist organizations in response to the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq on January 3, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported.
According to Tasnim, the generalities and details of the emergency motion were unanimously passed during an open session of the parliament on Tuesday morning.
This motion had already been signed by 206 MPs, including members of the parliament’s presiding board and the Budget Integration Commission.
According to one of its articles, the Iranian administration is reportedly obliged to provide the IRGC Quds Force with €200 million via the National Development Fund to strengthen the defense power of the forces.
General Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was the deputy head of Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha'abi (PMU), and a number of their entourage were killed in a strike by American drones near Baghdad International Airport in the early hours of January 3.
The White House and the Pentagon claimed responsibility for the assassination of General Soleimani in Iraq, saying the attack was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump.
