January 07, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's parliament
on Tuesday announced U.S. Department of
Defense, the Pentagon, as "terrorist
organization," official IRNA news agency
reported.
"According to the vote by the Iranian lawmakers, all
members of the Pentagon, the affiliated institutions and
companies, and the U.S. commanders who planned and
perpetrated assassination" of Qassem Soleimani, former
commander of the Quds Force of Islamic Revolution Guards
Corps (IRGC), are blacklisted, the report said.
The vote of the parliament also obliged the Iranian
government to allocate 200 million euros (223 million
U.S. dollars) to the IRGC's Quds Force to strengthen its
defense power.
