Iran’s Parliament passed a Bill on Tuesday designating all United States forces “terrorists” over the killing of a top Iranian military commander in a US strike last week. Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the popular head of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm, was killed in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport last Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the arch-foes. Under the newly adopted Bill, all US forces and employees of the Pentagon and affiliated organisations, agents and commanders and those who ordered the “martyrdom” of Maj-Gen Soleimani were designated as “terrorists”.

Iran’s Parliament passed a Bill on Tuesday designating all United States forces “terrorists” over the killing of a top Iranian military commander in a US strike last week. Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the popular head of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm, was killed in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport last Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the arch-foes. Under the newly adopted Bill, all US forces and employees of the Pentagon and affiliated organisations, agents and commanders and those who ordered the “martyrdom” of Maj-Gen Soleimani were designated as “terrorists”.