Well yea…but the left in this country could care less. You have people at the NY Times telling us how great the Jews are treated in Iran, you have celebrities and other leftist elites telling us that American aggression is the real problem, you have Obama making inroads to dialogue with President “Death to America” Ahmadinejad while the American and European left are convinced that we (America) forced Iran into sponsoring terrorism and therefore it is our fault that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, and them threatening to wipe Israel off the map is just a big mess of “misunderstanding” among the ruling parties. All we have to do is “talk” to them and they’ll come down from their perch atop the mountain of evil.
The US gov’t today affirmed what we already knew, but it won’t matter to the left:
Iran remains most active state sponsor of terrorism: US
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iran, which continues to plan and finance terrorist attacks in the Middle East and beyond, remains the “most active state sponsor of terrorism” in the world, the US government charged Thursday.
Iran was lumped with Syria, Sudan and Cuba as terrorism sponsors in the State Department report for 2008, the same countries that appeared in previous annual reports.
North Korea was dropped from the blacklist in October 2008 after it struck a verbal deal with the United States aimed at verifying its nuclear disarmament, even though a formal agreement was never sealed.
The latest report said “Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism,” while also calling it the “most significant” sponsor.
“Iran’s involvement in the planning and financial support of terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East, Europe, 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,” it said.
It singled out the Qods Force, an elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as the Islamic republic’s main means to cultivate and support terrorists overseas.
The Qods Force gave “weapons, training and funding” to Hamas and other Palestinian anti-Israeli groups, Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim fundamentalist Hezbollah as well as Iraq-based militants and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the report said.
It also said the Qods Force trained the Taliban “on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons.”
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