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...is considered a terrorist organization by Iran.

After the US Senate resolved that the Iranian revolutionary guard and Iran were engaging in terrorist activities, the Iranian rubber-stamp Parliament turned around and declared that the US, the US Army and the CIA were engaging in terrorism, and engaging in human rights violations.

Iran's parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army "terrorist organizations," in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons.

"The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror," said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio.

The resolution, which is seen as a diplomatic offensive against the U.S., urges Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to treat the two as terrorist organizations. It also paves the way for the resolution to become legislation that—if ratified by the country's hardline constitutional watchdog—would become law.

Deep among the recesses of the anti-American left, there were shouts of glee and partying like it was 799.

Iran's history of engaging in terrorism is long and notorious. You can go back to the Iranian invasion of the US Embassy in 1979, the ensuing hostage crisis, the long support for the Islamic terrorist group Hizbullah, the Marine barracks bombing in 1983 that killed 243 Marines and sailors, or the more recent support of the insurgency in Iraq where explosive formed projectors (EFPs) have repeatedly killed US armed forces in IED attacks.

Iran knows that it can make these kinds of claims and gain support among other anti-American thugs and dictators around the world, including [T]hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Such moves can easily gain currency in the UN, where anti-American sentiments run deep among the dictator set.

This isn't an instance of where the pot is calling the kettle black for that would indicate that there is a kernel of truth in the "argument" made by the Iranians.

Iran is counting on leftists and anti-American sentiment to carry the day. They figure that if they repeat claims that the US engages in human rights abuses that it will gain traction, even as such claims of abuses are investigated and those who have violated the law are prosecuted.