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IRANIAN SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM – FACT SHEET The U.S. government has consistently stated that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, providing a wide array of weaponry, funds, intelligence, safe harbor and logistical support to Shiite and Sunni terrorists. In some cases, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Force directly perpetrates acts of terrorism. 1 Congress has considered legislation requiring the State Department to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.2 The IRGC is currently on the Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals involved in terrorism. It was added in 2007. Iran has been on the State Department’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism since 1984. Its 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism states that Iran is supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, the Syrian regime (also labeled a State Sponsor of Terrorism), Houthi rebels in Yemen, Shiite militants in Bahrain and Shiite militias in Iraq The State Department confirmed that Iran continues to work with Al-Qaeda elements, despite their expressed hostility towards one another. It stated: “Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior Al-Qaeda (AQ) members it continued to detain, and refused to publicly identify those senior members in its custody. Iran allowed AQ facilitators Muhsin al-Fadhli and Adel Radi Saq al-Wahabi al-Harbi to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iran, enabling AQ to move funds and fighters to South Asia and also to Syria.
learn more at: http://www.clarionproject.org/sites/default/files/Iranian-Support-For-Terrorism.pdf
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