U.S. State Department: Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism globally
Can you imagine any U.S. president who would cooperate with a leading and active state sponsor of terrorism and reward them with the ability to develop nuclear weapons? Most people can’t imagine such a thing because it defies belief. However that is exactly what Obama is doing. No one knows what motivates Obama to make Iran, (the leading state sponsor of terrorism) a nuclear weapons power. If you count the number of terrorist acts and deaths attributed to Iran in Syria and elsewhere, Iran is the most dangerous country on the planet. The only possible explanation is that Obama believes the U.S. hegemony in the Middle East is worse than an Iranian hegemony.
Whether you think the U.S. has too much influence in the world and Middle East in particular is not the point. Nuclear weapons in the hands of a state sponsor of terrorism with missiles that can reach the U.S. homeland present a clear and present danger.
Iran is responsible for more deaths than the Islamic State. If Iran has nuclear weapons why shouldn’t the Islamic State have them as well? Iran’s leadership is equally cruel and has little regard for life. Iran demonstrated this in its war with Iraq when it sent tens of thousands boys as young as nine years of age to detonate mine fields with their bodies and certain death. Iran is responsible for the death of 250,000 Syrians and millions refugees. Containment with a society that loves death and martyrdom more than life is an illusion. Is this the enemy we want to have nuclear weapons?
The State Department Report
In July 2012, the United States State Department released a report on terrorism around the world in 2011. The report states that “Iran remained an active state sponsor of terrorism in 2011 and increased its terrorist-related activity” and that “Iran also continued to provide financial, material, and logistical support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.”
The report states that Iran has continued to provide “lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups targeting U.S. and Iraqi forces, as well as civilians,” despite pledging to support the stabilization of Iraq, and that the Qods Force provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on “small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons, such as mortars, artillery, and rockets.” The report further states that Iran has provided weapons and training to the Assad regime in Syria which has launched a brutal crackdown on Syrian rebels, as well as providing weapons, training, and funding to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, among others, and has assisted in rearming Hizballah.
The report states as well that Iran has remained unwilling to bring to justice senior members of Al Qaeda that it continued to detain, and also refused to publicly identify these senior members, as well as that Iran has allowed Al Qaeda members to operate a core facilitation pipeline through Iranian territory, which has enabled Al Qaeda to carry funds and move facilitators and operatives to South Asia and elsewhere.
RELATED ARTICLES:
As I See It: The Obama doctrine says ‘Israel’s enemy is my friend’ – The Jerusalem Post
Obama’s Iran policy rests on false assumptions and half-truths
