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Iranian Lawmakers Chant ‘Death to America’ as Parliament Condemns Terrorist Designation

Anger as Trump designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorists.

Iranian lawmakers chanted “death to America” in parliament as they met to condemn Donald Trump's unprecedented decision to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump's call—the first time the U.S. has labelled another country's official military as a terrorist group—is the latest escalation in tensions between the two countries since Trump withdrew the U.S. from the international Iran nuclear pact. It places Iran's military in the same group as al Qaida and ISIS. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council responded by designating U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorists and labeling the U.S. a “supporter of terrorism.” In parliament, Speaker Ali Larijani called Trump's decision the “climax of stupidity and ignorance,” while the Supreme National Security Council’s spokesman, Keivan Khosravi, said that “any unusual move by American forces in the region will be perceived as the behavior by a terrorist group.”

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