Iran's parliament voted Tuesday to urgently increase funds for the country's missile programme and Revolutionary Guards in response to U.S."adventurism" in the region, local media reported.

A majority of lawmakers passed a motion to prioritise legislation "to confront terrorist and adventurist actions by the United States in the region," the Mizan Online website reported.

The motion was originally introduced after the U.S. Senate passed new sanctions on Iran in June and sent them to the House of Representatives.

The proposed bill mandates the government to allocate an additional 260 million dollars to the joint armed forces for the "development of the missile programme" and the same amount to the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations wing, the Quds Force.

The motion sends a clear message to the Americans that Iran's parliament "will resist them with all its power", speaker Ali Larijani said.

Source: Xinhua