Iran FM proposes terrorist blacklisting of US forces in West Asia
Tehran (KNA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has proposed that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) should add American forces in West Asia, known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), to its list of terrorist groups in the Islamic Republic.
Zarif made the proposal in a Monday letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who also chairs the SNSC, shortly after US President Donald Trump designated Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) a foreign terrorist organization.
"The IRGC is the Iranian government's primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist campaign," Trump said in a statement.
In his letter to Rouhani, the top Iranian diplomat said given overt and covert support of US military forces in the region for terrorist groups and their direct involvement in terrorist acts, the SNSC should designate American forces as terrorists based on a law titled "Countering America's Human Rights Violation and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions" passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2017.
In August 2017, Iran's lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a motion in response to US sanctions, voting to boost spending on Tehran's missile program and the IRGC's defense mechanism.
Source: PressTV