Designating Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terror group could jeopardize US troops.
Lawmakers wearing Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniforms chant slogans during an open session of Parliament in Tehran on Tuesday.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The White House was looking to shake things up when“American terrorists killed in bombing,” read a headline in Iran’s official Fars news agency, referring to an.
Iranian lawmakers dressed in military uniforms also chanted"Death to America" during an open session of Parliament on Tuesday. And according to the country’s Mehr news agency, Parliament passed an emergency bill requesting that countries that arrest U.S troops should hand them over to Iran to face trial as terrorists.
President Hassan Rouhani declared that the force's popularity would only surge in the wake of the designation, saying its members would be more"in the hearts of the Iranian nation" than at any other time in history.
“If you have terrorists nearby ... what do you do with them?” he wrote in an email. “In the U.S. system, we have authorities that authorize military operations against them. The Iranians know that. Are they going to wait to be hit? Or will they hit first?” This is not a hypothetical scenario: For almost two decades Iran has expanded its influence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. In the process, it has had to operate close to American forces — often as adversaries, but sometimes not.
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