Agence France Press reprted that the US Senate voted majority to place the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or Pasdaran, on the US terrorist blacklist. This resolution for the non-binding amendment sponsored by Republican Jon Kyl and independent Joseph Lieberman.

Such a designation if adopted by the US government would open the corps and affiliated companies to economic sanctions.

This news agency added: US military officials and lawmakers have accused the Revolutionary Guard of arming Shiite militias in Iraq, and supplying sophisticated roadside bombs used to kill US soldiers in the war-torn nation.

The US administration also accuses Iran of seeking to build an atomic bomb under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, a charge Tehran denies.

. The blacklist, which already includes Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah, bars named groups from gaining access to the US financial system.

The House of Representatives adopted a similar text on Tuesday against the backdrop of rising tensions between Iran and the United States and a scathing attack on the United States by Iran’s hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, before the UN General Assembly.