According to US Government Data, Iran is Not the Major Sponsor of Terrorism
When it comes to using terrorism as a political club, the United States government is the grand master, and a deceptive one at that. The establishment media, lubricated with funds from the CIA and USAID, continue to push the lie that Iran is a massive sponsor of terrorism.
The U.S. government considers Iran to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism, spending more than one billion dollars on terrorist financing annually, and there are between 140,000 and 185,000 IRGC-Quds Force partner forces in Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
But, according to the data presented in the statistical annex of the US Department of State’s annual report, Country Reports on Terrorism, the major perpetrators of terrorism are Sunni groups, not Iran nor groups allegedly sponsored by Iran. The Sunni groups receive financial support from the Gulf Arabs and, ironically, from the United States.
The definition of terrorism, according to Bibi Netanyahu (and I agree with him), is violence against civilians for political purposes. Simple and direct.
I have copied the tables from the Annex of Statistical Information for the years 2016 — 2023. The data in these tables tell the story. ISIS has been the most active and prolific terrorist group for the eight years presented in the spreadsheets pictured below. One group that is a subsidiary of ISIS — Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham — has placed in the top ten of the groups with most attacks for five of the last six years. And guess who the CIA helped come to power in Syria? That would be Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
It is noteworthy that we have learned this week, thanks to Elon Musk, that USAID funneled funds to Al Nusra. For those of you not familiar with Al Nusra, it came into existence out of ISIS and one of its leaders was Muhammad Al Jawlani, who later created Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, and is now the de facto leader of Syria. The US had a $10 million dollar bounty on his head until Joe Biden’s State Department made it go away.
It is only in 2023 that three groups with ties to Iran appear in the Top Ten list — the Houthis (Ansar Allah), Hamas and Hezbollah . The US decision to place the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah on this list is because of their attacks on Israel, which have been directed primarily at military targets, not civilian ones. Prior to 2023, neither Hamas nor Hezbollah was identified as groups with the most attacks worldwide. Guess who killed more civilians than Hamas and Hezbollah combined in 2023? That would be Israel, but the US refuses to identify Israeli attacks on unarmed civilians as terrorism or genocide.
Elon Musk’s revelations that USAID has provided millions of US taxpayer dollars to groups the US labels as terrorists exposes the galling hypocrisy of US policy for combating terrorism. An honest assessment of the data makes it clear that the United States has been a facilitator of terrorism. Keep that in mind the next time you hear someone from the Trump administration insist that we must crush Iran because it sponsors terrorism. A nation that lives in a glass house should not throw rocks.
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