In
response to Washington’s decision to put Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards on the terrorist list, the Iranian Supreme Security Council
declared the US a “terrorist government” while calling the US
CENTCOM a terrorist group as well.
Following
what it called an “unlawful and unreasonable action” of the US,
Tehran officially declared the US “a terrorist government and the
US Central Command known as CENTCOM as well as all its affiliates a
terrorist group,” a statement of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme
National Security Council headed by President Hassan Rouhani said.
The
statement blamed CENTCOM for harming Iran’s national security as
well as ruining the lives of “innocent Iranian and non-Iranian
individuals” to promote the US' “aggressive policies” in
Western Asia. It also specifically mentioned that the US is
“involved” in the killing of people in Yemen, where a Saudi-led
coalition wages a brutal military campaign against the Shia Houthi
rebels. Washington has long provided intelligence and logistic
support to the Saudis, and also sold them weapons as part of arms
deals worth billions of dollars.
The US
and its allies “have always been advocates of extremist groups and
terrorists in the Western Asian region,” the council said, adding
that Washington has to take responsibility for “the dangerous
consequences of its adventures.”
Earlier
on Monday President Donald Trump announced the US' decision to
designate Iran’s elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guards
Corps, as a terrorist group.
The
Iranian Security Council condemned the move by calling it “an
illegal and dangerous action” that poses a “major threat to the
regional and international peace and security as well as grossly
violates the rules of international law.”
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