Iran the most active sponsor of terrorism

[P.kid]

Any muslim country tht doesnt folow uncle is a country full of terrorists.

 

[pak-marine]

It was US who supported Sadam in Iran - Iraq war , later the same Sadam was acused of WMD's and than technically murdered.

It was US who sponsored Taliban against the soviets , later the same were declared the terrorists and the country was invaded.

Similar was the case in Pakistan , it was all done by US funding , arms etc to ISI who the west are now accusing of having links with Taliban.


Bottom line is US is the biggest sponsor of terrorism , height of hipocracy and selfihness is when it comes to their self interests , the same were heros !!

 

[TruthSeeker]

The beginning, middle and end of the US problem with Muslim majority countries is the issue of the unreserved support the US offers Israeli policy.

Isn't the best way to safe guard Israel and your guilty conscience, to ensure that Israel will be a normal country at peace within and with it's neighbors?

Muse, Sir, I absolutely agree with you. We should read the riot act to the Israelis: "Make a just peace with the Palestinians, and insure equality for your own non-Jewish Israeli citizens, in the next two years or we are outta here! Good-bye! You are on your own."

BUT, the Iranians are STILL the world's worst state sponsors of terrorism and changing the US policy vis a' vis the Israeli/Palestinian mess will not change that. The Iranians are on a Shiite mission from Allah. They want to be the guardians of the three holiest places of Islam, pure and simple.

 

[muse]

The Iranians are on a Shiite mission from Allah. They want to be the guardians of the three holiest places of Islam, pure and simple

TS (Terribly Sexy?)


I don't think the Iranians think of themselves in this way, Mr. Ahmadinejad may, but I don't think Iranians do - I had the privelage of living in Iran, it was many many years ago, but my impression of the Iranian is not one comfortable with the notion that he is a psychotic religious lune --- though the Saudi most certainly is.

Israel does not need to be read the riot act, nor ought it be abandoned - on the other hand, US policy duplicity must end - either the rules apply for all or they apply to none - An Israel, no bigger than a neighborhood in Karachi, with thousands of tanks, hundreds of aircraft and nuclear weapons and with a penchant to thumb it's nose at international opinion, a penchant backed up by US tax dollars and a pandering congress - it's just a disaster in the making - it can't go on like this -- It's not Israel that is paying for it's behaviour, it's US and US interests - It can't go on like this.

 

[Hussein]

BUT, the Iranians are STILL the world's worst state sponsors of terrorism and changing the US policy vis a' vis the Israeli/Palestinian mess will not change that. The Iranians are on a Shiite mission from Allah. They want to be the guardians of the three holiest places of Islam, pure and simple.

I know this guy didn't want to answer me
as he said once
with his fanatic and racist idea about the Iranian people

just i wonder why he got still credit by any answer to him

the world would be better without fanatics of war and racism
ahmadinejad is not the only specialist in this matter .. sadly

and about Israel, i don't think it's matter of israel thaty they choose US policy
Israel having its own policy which is very local
USA , even being a symbol of democracy, is having as well half of military budget of the world , and a number of invasions of territories
but this is not terrorism
war is not terror
war is fun

 

[British_Bangladeshi]

Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
US State Department
Country Reports on Terrorism 2009
August 5, 2010

IRAN

Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Iran’s financial, material, and logistic support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia had a direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf and undermined the growth of democracy.

Iran remained the principal supporter of groups that are implacably opposed to the Middle East Peace Process. The Qods Force, the external operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. Iran provided weapons, training, and funding to HAMAS and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support to Lebanese Hizballah and has trained thousands of Hizballah fighters at camps in Iran. Since the end of the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iran has assisted Hizballah in rearming, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Iran’s Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons. Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments to select Taliban members, including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives.

Despite its pledge to support the stabilization of Iraq, Iranian authorities continued to provide lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups that targeted U.S. and Iraqi forces. The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians. Iran was responsible for the increased lethality of some attacks on U.S. forces by providing militants with the capability to assemble explosively formed penetrators that were designed to defeat armored vehicles. The Qods Force, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq and advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device technology and other advanced weaponry.

Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ) members it continued to detain, and refused to publicly identify those senior members in its custody. Iran has repeatedly resisted numerous calls to transfer custody of its AQ detainees to their countries of origin or third countries for trial; it is reportedly holding Usama bin Ladin’s family members under house arrest.

Senior IRGC, IRGC Qods Force, and Iranian government officials were indicted by the Government of Argentina for their alleged roles in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA); according to the Argentine State Prosecutor’s report, the attack was initially proposed by the Qods Force. In 2007, INTERPOL issued a “red notice” for six individuals wanted in connection to the bombing. One of the individuals, Ahmad Vahidi, was named as Iran’s Defense Minister in August 2009.

Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 State Sponsors of Terrorism

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Iran is the biggest enemy of the USA. I hope that my government does everything in its power to crush the Iranian regime. If I were President of the USA I would spend $B's to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran. No tactic would be off-limits in seeking to defeat the mullahs and the revolutionary guard leaders of Iran.

Sincerely,
TruthSeeker

awww, whats wrong did Iran hurt your feelings? I guess momma bush is going to have to get you a new diaper, share your feelings between your junior terrorists(young americans) because I am sure muslims aren't taking that BS!

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

I have no comment on the veracity of the US reports regarding Iranian support, other than to point out that like commentary out of the US regarding Pakistani support for the Taliban, it is unsubstantiated.

In fact, with the wikileaks documents, we have seen what kind of 'secret intelligence reports' have been compiled and used by the US, and possibly many of the journalists in the US media quoting 'anonymous military and intelligence sources'. These 'secret intelligence reports' linking the ISI and Taliban have been discredited by many notable analysts as being unverified and fantastic, and possible planted by the NDS and other Afghan officials with an axe to grind against Pakistan.

If similar intelligence reports are the reason for the accusations by the State Department against Iran, then one can only conclude that they are similarly flawed accusations.

That said, for many here defending the Iranian regime against US accusations, I would like to point out that I have come across many Iranians (online, so that does not speak to all Iranians) who would throw Pakistan 'under the bus', have no issues believing every negative piece of news about Pakistan, and with some even questioning our right to live as a nation independently.

Let us not forget that the regime in Iran is a fundamentalist Shia regime, like the Saudi regime, and they two played a vicious proxy war in Pakistan in years past. The Iranian regime is not necessarily enamored with Pakistan because of the fact that Pakistan is primarily Sunni, and a strong ally of the Saudis. I personally believe Pakistan needs to be closer to the Iran than Saudi Arabia, given that they are our neighbor, share similar security concerns in Baluchistan-Sistan, and are culturally closer to us than the Arabs as well - but I do cannot say that I see a willing partner in the current Iranian regime, or for that matter in many Iranian secularists.

 

[Tshering22]

Dude, seriously? Iran just had a tri-lateral meeting with us and Russians a few days back on how to contain Taliban. You really think that Russians won't be keeping an eye on all this if it was true? They might not be active anymore in the region but not keeping an eye on Taliban especially when its darlings (CAS) are in danger?

Iran does provide equipment to other terrorists like Hezbollah and stuff but Taliban is wayyyy out of the question. I think there's a shortage of excuses to attack.

 

[Hussein]

Let us not forget that the regime in Iran is a fundamentalist Shia regime, like the Saudi regime, and they two played a vicious proxy war in Pakistan in years past. The Iranian regime is not necessarily enamored with Pakistan because of the fact that Pakistan is primarily Sunni, and a strong ally of the Saudis. I personally believe Pakistan needs to be closer to the Iran than Saudi Arabia, given that they are our neighbor, share similar security concerns in Baluchistan-Sistan, and are culturally closer to us than the Arabs as well - but I do cannot say that I see a willing partner in the current Iranian regime, or for that matter in many Iranian secularists.

we need both sides smart politics

 

[mehru]

Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
US State Department
Country Reports on Terrorism 2009
August 5, 2010

IRAN

Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Iran’s financial, material, and logistic support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia had a direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf and undermined the growth of democracy.

Iran remained the principal supporter of groups that are implacably opposed to the Middle East Peace Process. The Qods Force, the external operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. Iran provided weapons, training, and funding to HAMAS and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support to Lebanese Hizballah and has trained thousands of Hizballah fighters at camps in Iran. Since the end of the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iran has assisted Hizballah in rearming, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Iran’s Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons. Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments to select Taliban members, including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives.

Despite its pledge to support the stabilization of Iraq, Iranian authorities continued to provide lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups that targeted U.S. and Iraqi forces. The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians. Iran was responsible for the increased lethality of some attacks on U.S. forces by providing militants with the capability to assemble explosively formed penetrators that were designed to defeat armored vehicles. The Qods Force, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq and advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device technology and other advanced weaponry.

Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior al-Qa’ida (AQ) members it continued to detain, and refused to publicly identify those senior members in its custody. Iran has repeatedly resisted numerous calls to transfer custody of its AQ detainees to their countries of origin or third countries for trial; it is reportedly holding Usama bin Ladin’s family members under house arrest.

Senior IRGC, IRGC Qods Force, and Iranian government officials were indicted by the Government of Argentina for their alleged roles in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA); according to the Argentine State Prosecutor’s report, the attack was initially proposed by the Qods Force. In 2007, INTERPOL issued a “red notice” for six individuals wanted in connection to the bombing. One of the individuals, Ahmad Vahidi, was named as Iran’s Defense Minister in August 2009.

Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 State Sponsors of Terrorism

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Iran is the biggest enemy of the USA. I hope that my government does everything in its power to crush the Iranian regime. If I were President of the USA I would spend $B's to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Iran. No tactic would be off-limits in seeking to defeat the mullahs and the revolutionary guard leaders of Iran.

Sincerely,
TruthSeeker

Very disappointing sir. Your are one sensible American poster here so this was not expected from you. Iran has supported Hezbollah but Taliban will not fit in their agenda. Why will they support a Sunni force?

@ your comment
Why you want to destabilize a stable country? It will achieve nothing. It will bring more chaos. Every nation has the right to live.
I am not Anti American but i think American policies have definitely hurt Muslim world.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Very disappointing sir. Your are one sensible American poster here so this was not expected from you. Iran has supported Hezbollah but Taliban will not fit in their agenda. Why will they support a Sunni force?

@ your comment
Why you want to destabilize a stable country? It will achieve nothing. It will bring more chaos. Every nation has the right to live.
I am not Anti American but i think American policies have definitely hurt Muslim world.

Sir, I appreciate that you say that, sometimes, I am a "sensible" American poster. However, don't be misled. I believe that my country is moral and ethical. I believe that it pursues policies that my government thinks are best for the USA and for humanity. If our State Department believes that the IRG supports the Taliban, then I believe them. That is, I believe that the evidence they are seeing leads reasonably to that conclusion. I don't think they are making it up. I truly believe that Iran's government is dangerous to my country and that we should do everything in our power to defeat the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the mullahs that support them. There is no leadership on this earth that Americans despise more than the Iranian government. None.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Iran is just fine, just needs a nuclear weapon

 

[mehru]

Sir, I appreciate that you say that, sometimes, I am a "sensible" American poster. However, don't be misled. I believe that my country is moral and ethical. I believe that it pursues policies that my government thinks are best for the USA and for humanity. If our State Department believes that the IRG supports the Taliban, then I believe them. That is, I believe that the evidence they are seeing leads reasonably to that conclusion. I don't think they are making it up. I truly believe that Iran's government is dangerous to my country and that we should do everything in our power to defeat the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the mullahs that support them. There is no leadership on this earth that Americans despise more than the Iranian government. None.

You should be wary of your state department because of their false reporting regarding Iraq WMD's. Don't trust them blindly.
Iran is no doubt ruled by a fundamentalist, anti American Govt so i understand if you call them enemy. You are just to despise them. However, pursuit of wrong foreign policy could result in another Iraq blunder.
You said that your country is moral and ethical. I can't say the same about my very own country. In pursuit of interests, every country commit crimes against humanity, against other countries. Foreign policy of any country is not driven by morality. It is based on self-interests.

 

[nightcrawler]

Biggest supporter of terrorism is SaudiArab because its Petrol is paid by Blood of Muslims

 

[muse]

For all those in the US who refuse to understand the basis of the problem US faces in the world: It US and US interests in peril, if you actually did care, you should examine this issue further -- there is a Pakistan first sentiment or movement when it comes to interests of Pakistan, perhaps there ought to be a soimilar sentiment or movement in the US - unless of course you find the endless wars with Muslim majorty countries something you'll miss.


Iran gains as Arabs' Obama hopes sink
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - United States President Barack Obama has suffered a sharp drop in popularity in the Arab world over the past year, and Iran may be reaping the benefits, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries.

Only 20% of respondents in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) now view the US president positively, compared to 45% who did so in the spring of 2009, according to the 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll conducted


by Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution and the Zogby International polling firm.

Moreover, negative views of Obama have skyrocketed - from 23% to 62% - since the last poll was conducted in April-May 2009. The new findings were based on interviews with nearly 4,000 adults in the six countries between June 29 and July 20 this year.

When respondents were asked to name the world leader they admired most, Obama's standing was less than 1%. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was cited most often (20%), followed by last year's top pick, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (13%), and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad (12%).

Erdogan's rapid rise to the top - he was cited by only 4% last year and never mentioned in the 2008 survey - was due to his outspoken denunciation of the 2008-9 Gaza war waged by Israel and the Turkish role in the aid flotilla to Gaza that was intercepted by Israeli commandos at the end of May, Telhami noted.

Much of the disillusionment with Obama appears related to his failure to make progress in achieving a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, according to Telhami, who has conducted eight previous surveys of Arab opinion since 2000.

Asked what policies pursued by the Obama administration they were most disappointed with, 61% of respondents in the new poll identified the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. That was more than twice the percentage of the next-most-cited example, Washington's Iraq policy (27%).

"This is the prism through which Arabs view the Untied States," Telhami said, referring to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Iran appears to have benefited, at least indirectly, from Arab disillusionment with Obama, the poll results suggested.

While a majority of respondents (55%) said they believed Tehran's nuclear program was aimed at developing weapons - a charge denied by Iran - nearly four out of five respondents (77%) said the country had the right to pursue the program - a whopping increase of 24% since last year.

Support for the program was strongest by far in Egypt and Morocco and weakest in the UAE, where a strong majority said Iran should be pressured to halt it.

Conversely, only 20% of respondents said they favored applying international pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear program. That was down from the 40% who took that position one year ago.

"Overall, there is very little support here for the notion that Arabs are secretly yearning for the US to attack Iran," wrote Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University, whose blog on foreignpolicy.com has a wide readership.

Moreover, a solid majority (57%) of respondents agreed that if Iran acquired nuclear weapons, it would lead to a "more positive" outcome in the Middle East region. That was nearly twice the percentage of one year ago (29%). By contrast, only 21% said that it would lead to a "more negative outcome", compared to a plurality of 46% who took that position in 2009.

These results, Telhami said, are "highly correlated to how [respondents] feel about US policy. It's mostly an expression of anger and pessimism about US policy."

Speaking before a standing-room-only audience at Brookings, Telhami stressed that the Arab world, unlike some other key regions, was never "in love with Obama", but that his election had raised their hopes, particularly after the eight-year reign of George W Bush, who was consistently rated with former Israeli prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert as the global leader most disliked by Arabs in Telhami's surveys.

Hopes for Obama rose even further after his June 4, 2009, speech in Cairo where he pledged to "seek a new beginning" in relations between the United States and the Islamic world and expressed particular sympathy for the plight of Palestinians, especially in Gaza.

But those hopes appear to have largely collapsed over the past year, according to the survey's findings. While he remains a somewhat attractive figure to many Arabs - 48% said they had a favorable personal view of him - an overwhelming majority (89%) said that he either would not or could not change basic US policies in the region.

In one of the most remarkable findings, only 12% of respondents said they had a favorable view of the United States. That was three percentage points less than in the 2008 survey when Bush was still president. At the same time, however, the survey found a significant drop in those with "very unfavorable" views of the United States - from 64% in 2008 to 47% in the latest poll.

Asked what two steps Washington could take that would most improve their views of the US, respondents cited achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, withdrawing from Iraq, stopping aid to Israel, and withdrawing from the Arabian Peninsula in that order. Democracy promotion and economic aid received much less support.

Asked which two factors they believed were most important in driving US policy in the Middle East, respondents most commonly cited protecting Israel, controlling oil, weakening the Muslim world, and preserving regional and global dominance in that order. Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, promoting stability, fighting terrorism, and spreading human rights and democracy received many fewer mentions.

Asked what two countries posed the greatest threats to them personally, respondents cited Israel (88%) and the US (77%) - exactly the same results as in the 2009 survey. When Bush was still president, 95% of respondents cited Israel; 88% the US. By contrast, Iran was cited by 10% of respondents, down from 13% last year.

On Israel, the new survey found a significant increase in the belief that the Jewish state exercised a more powerful influence on the US than the other way around.

Asked what motivates Israeli policies and US support for them, a plurality of 47% said they believed "Israel decides on its own interests and influences the US", compared to 24% who took that position two years ago. By contrast, 20% said they believed "Israel is a tool of American foreign policy," while 33% agreed that the "US and Israel have mutual interests".

Pessimism about prospects for a lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in the medium term has also increased in the last two years. While 40% believed such a settlement was "inevitable", only 4 said they thought it would happen in the next five years - down from 13% in 2008. A majority of 54% believed such an accord would never happen.

As to their own view about such a peace, a record 86% of respondents said they were prepared for peace if Israel was willing to return all the territories it captured in the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem. But 56% said they believed "Israel will never give up these territories easily."

Twelve percent said that Arabs should continue to fight even if Israel agrees to such a compromise. Last year, 25% of respondents took that position.

Jim Lobe's blog on US foreign policy can be read at LobeLog.com.

(Inter Press Service)