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> Iran's parliament votes to label CIA, U.S. Army 'terrorist' groups
>  a.. Iran's parliament says CIA, U.S. Army "train terrorists," IRNA
> reports
>  b.. Parliament bases label on "known and accepted" standards of
> terrorism
>  c.. U.S. Senate passed resolution to label Iran's Quds Force a
> terrorist group
>  d.. CIA: "There are some things that don't even deserve comment.
> This is one."
> (CNN) -- The Iranian parliament on Saturday voted to designate the
> United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army as
> terrorist organizations, IRNA, the country's state-run news agency,
> reported.
> The CIA and the U.S. Army "trained terrorists and supported
> terrorism, and they themselves are terrorists," the parliament said,
> according to IRNA.
> The Iranian parliament said the condemnation was based on "known and
> accepted" standards of terrorism from international regulations,
> including the U.N. charter.
>
> The parliament said it condemns the "aggressions by the U.S. Army,
> particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan" and calls on the United Nations
> to "intervene in the global problem of U.S. prisons in Guantanamo
> Bay, Abu Ghraib and secret jails in other countries," IRNA reported,
> quoting a statement from Iranian lawmakers.
> The Iranian parliament also decried the CIA's and U.S. Army's
> involvement in the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World
> War II, U.S. involvement in the Balkans, Vietnam and the U.S. support
> of Israel.
> Of the condemnation, Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman, said, "There
> are some things that don't even deserve comment. This is one."
>
> National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said he declined
> to comment "on non-binding resolutions passed by parliaments in
> countries with dubious records on human rights, democracy and that
> are state sponsors of terror."
> There was no immediate response from the U.S. State Department.
>
> Washington and U.S. military leaders have long accused Iran of
> training and equipping insurgents in Iraq. The United States and Iran
> have not had formal diplomatic relations since 1980 after Iranian
> militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held Americans
> hostage for 444 days.
> The Iranian lawmakers' condemnation was in apparent retaliation for
> the U.S. Senate's resolution Wednesday requesting that the United
> States designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, or Quds
> Force, as a foreign terrorist organization.
>
> The Senate resolution passed a day after Iranian President Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly that an agreement reached
> last month between his country and the International Atomic Energy
> Agency (IAEA) over its disputed nuclear program has, in the Iranian
> view, settled the matter.