TEHRAN, Iran (AP):

Iran's parliament yesterday approved a non-bonding resolution to label the CIA and the United States Army as "terrorist organisations."

The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favour of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation.

"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 hard-line-dominated par-liament said the two were terrorists, because they were involved in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, used depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supported the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombed and killed Iraqi civilians, and tortured terror suspects in prisons.