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The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the U.S the Leader of World Terrorism. He responded to President Donald Trump’s classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a Terrorist Organization. Rouhani delivered a speech on state television in which he angrily rejected the decision of the White House. The terrorist classification means that anyone doing business with the Revolutionary Guard risks a U.S prison term. Rouhani said, “Who are you to label revolutionary institutions as terrorists”?

He claimed that the organization had consistently fought against terrorism since it was created in 1979 to safeguard the Islamic Revolution. He added, “You want to use terrorist groups as tools against the nations of the region… you are the leader of world terrorism. Who is propagating and encouraging terrorism in today’s world? Who wanted to use ISIS as a tool”? He asked blaming the U.S of hiding the leaders of the Islamic State militant group.

On Monday, the Iranian regime had already lashed out at the White House, immediately after Trump announced his decision. Rouhani claimed all American troops in the region were terrorists. He pointed to the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988 as evidence of American terrorism. The passenger plane was destroyed by missiles fired by the USS Vincennes and killed 290 people.

He added, “You have done everything imaginable. Which force was it that shot down our civil airliner in the waters of the Persian Gulf? You wanted to tell the Iranian nation that we don’t have any red lines. You wanted to say that we also kill children. You wanted to say that we also kill women”. Rouhani suggested that Washington was sending a message of terrorism in the whole world. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also hit back at Washington as Iran marked the annual National Day of the Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday.