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Iran’s Ties to the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

Jun 19, 2019 9:00 am By Rami Dabbas

As is known, the Islamic State (ISIS) originated with Osama bin Laden and his Islamic jihad, but many overlook the importance of another player in the equation, Iran. Over the past 20 years, Iranian intelligence has provided financial, material, technological and other support to al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Imad Mughniyeh, who led an extensive network of Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Hamas and several small terrorist groups in five continents, was responsible for this.

After the announcement  of the organization of the Islamic State, the group claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. Western intelligence services expanded efforts to detect jihad cells in Europe and at the same time increased air strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. No one expected the group to be able to carry out the biggest terrorist attack in Europe since the train bombings in Madrid in 2004.

There was a sign that Europe was facing a terrorist expansion in their countries. The indication came from those who carried off the Paris attacks. Abdelhamid Abu Oud boasted about the attack in an interview with the French edition of ISIS’ magazine Dabiq. He easily escaped the Belgian authorities and moved freely between Syria and Europe.

The question raised by Abu Oud’s boast is how he succeeded in moving from a small group of Islamic mujahideen who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan to the most powerful terrorist organization in the world.

In his book The Secret War with Iran, Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman notes that the Syrian regime pledged during the 1982 summer meeting in Damascus to give full support to Iran’s efforts to establish Hezbollah. In exchange for oil, the Syrian regime agreed to the entry of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards into Lebanon and oversaw the establishment of an Iranian-backed armed group. The first to be recruited into the force was Imad Mughniyeh, whose terrorist origins are tied to Force 17 of the PLO.

It was not long before Mughniyah began planning several operations, including the bombing of the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983. According to former CIA officer Robert Baer, ​​this was the deadliest attack on a US diplomatic mission since the United States was founded.

The period until the end of the 1980s saw numerous operations and attacks that were planned. When the Iran-Iraq war ended, the Iranian regime saw its end as an opportunity to expand in the Arab region. Mughniyeh worked with the newly established Quds Force, whose mission was to export the Islamic revolution worldwide. Because of Mughniyeh’s success in raising Hezbollah to the ranks of other major players in Lebanon, he was an important element in fulfilling the Quds Force’s task of forming armed groups around the world.

Mughniyeh soon established a vast network of elements associated with the Quds Force in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

In the meantime, Sudan became the next regime to declare itself Islamic after the coup of Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 1989. Among the jihadi organizations hosted by the al-Bashir regime was the Egyptian “Jihad” organization led by  Ayman Al Zawahiri one of the pillars of al-Qaeda. Zawahiri traveled to Tehran in 1991 to seek help in overthrowing the Egyptian regime. Mughniyah went to Sudan to help al-Zawahiri in the framework of an agreement he reached with the Iranians. Tehran offered to fund the Egyptian jihad and provide training camps for its operatives in Iran and Lebanon. After Osama bin Laden moved to Sudan, he met Mughniyah. The leader of al Qaeda knew of Mughniyah’s role in Lebanon and his planned attacks there. Bin Laden hoped his organization would achieve similar results around the world.

Bin Laden could not have carried out attacks in the West without Mughniyah’s help. Because of their confluence, Mughniyah offered bin Laden training of his cadres in Hezbollah camps in the Bekaa in Lebanon between 1993 and 1996. Some of bin Laden’s men were sent to Iran, where they were trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and supplied with explosives and weapons for bin Laden’s subsequent operations. The common denominator between bin Laden and the Iranian regime was their hostility to Saudi Arabia.

Mughniyah gave his help to Zawahiri and bin Laden in the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad in late 1995 that killed 17 people. When the Sudanese regime ousted bin Laden under pressure from the West, he moved with his cadres to Afghanistan, again with Mughniyah’s help. Over the next two years, al-Qaeda cadres received extensive training in preparation for what bin Laden called “global jihad.” In the last months of 1997, bin Laden told the Iranians that they should reconsider their foreign policy and join his campaign against the United States and its allies.

Mughniyah continued to train al-Qaeda cells during the early years of the 21st century as the official policy adopted by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on the relationship with al-Qaeda was crystallized in a highly classified document prepared by Iranian intelligence in May 2001. The document stressed the importance of joint strategic objectives between al-Qaeda and the Iranian regime in the “battle against global arrogance led by the United States and Israel.” The Middle East magazine The Tower quoted the secret document as saying it was crucial to understanding Mughniyeh’s relationship with 2001 9/11 attacks in United States.

An investigation committee found that Mughniyeh and his top aides accompanied eight of the 19 hijackers who carried out the attacks when they left Saudi Arabia for Tehran through Beirut in late 2000. Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the link between the al-Qaeda leadership and the hijackers, received a visa from the Iranian embassy in Berlin in late 2000. He spent the greater part of 2001 in Tehran.

After the attacks, Mughniyeh took over the travel of al-Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Iran to protect them from the US invasion on October 7, 2001. In addition to housing Ayman al-Zawahiri and al-Qaeda’s military wing Saif al-Adl in Iran, Mughniyah took measures to host many members of the bin Laden family. Mughniyah also used his global network to turn most al-Qaeda assets across Africa into gold and diamonds in the months following the September 11 attacks.

By 2002, Mughniyeh was supporting Shiite and Sunni armed groups throughout the Middle East, under the guidance of the Iranian regime. He was a mediator between the Iranian regime on the one hand and Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian territories on the other.

In the summer of 2006, Mughniyah attended a series of meetings with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Tehran. By July of that year, three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by Hamas and Hezbollah on the border with the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Mugniyah’s relations with Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the timing of the incidents indicate a degree of cooperation. From the tactical point of view, the two incidents dragged the Israeli army into military action on two fronts.

In February 2008, Mughniyeh was killed in a mysterious explosion following a series of meetings with intelligence officials of the Syrian regime in the region of Kafr Sousse in Damascus. The body responsible for his assassination has been unknown for years. In January, the Washington Post published an investigation into his death that was the result of a joint operation between the CIA and Mossad.

In the wake of the killing of Mughniyah, many of those trained by him became senior leaders of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in the Palestinian territories. In Lebanon, his disciples became the architects of Hezbollah’s strategy in Syria. In Iraq, the Shiite militias under his supervision have become the tombstone of democracy.

In the meantime, the Sunni militias that Mughniyah helped and embraced have turned into a global terrorist threat called the Islamic State organization. Mughniyah’s cells in Europe were sending al-Qaeda jihadists from Europe to Iraq and Afghanistan during the first decade of the 21st century. The same networks continued to enable foreign fighters to travel to Iraq through Syria. These jihadists returned to Europe to carry out terrorist attacks, such as the Paris attacks and the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Analysts say finding solutions to this threat should not be confined to the southern suburb of Paris or the poor suburb of Molenbeek in Brussels, but should extend to Hezbollah’s relationship to West African diamond trade, drug trafficking networks in Latin America and many black markets in Southeast Asia.

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  1. christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:36 am

    ISIS and Al-Qaeda are made in the US to destabilize and regime-change other countries
    including Iran, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Serbia, Yemen and Lebanon. U$A is indeed the founder of ISIS!

    • christianblood says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 9:39 am

      America has a very long history of forming, arming, training and supporting Islamic jihadists like ISIS, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, FSA and many others. Below, former US national security adviser encourages members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to fight jihad in the path of allah and overthrow the socialist government of Afghanistan at the time!

      • christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 9:41 am

        Former US president, Ronald Reagan, hosted Al-Qaeda and Taliban delegation in the White House and called them “freedom fighters”. Watch:

        • RonaldB says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 11:15 am

          This is a sloppy comment. The video was shot in 1985 and the Taliban was founded in 1994. So, how could Reagan host a Taliban delegation in 1985? Are the rest of your facts as sloppy?

        • CRUSADER says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 3:57 pm

          “Christianblood” makes many sweeping statements —
          in particular that USA is one solid bloc which manipulates the world stage
          as if there are no other actors and no dissent occurring in a dynamic society.

        • Todd says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 7:04 pm

          Wow…incredible!!
          Someone taught a monkey how to type!! Way to go on learning , CB. Maybe you can teach my dog and cat how to?

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 7:06 pm

          RonaldB

          In the eighties the Taliban and other jihadists fighting the Soviet-backed socialist government in Afghanistan were called “the mujahehdeen” or the jihadists and then in early ninetees they changed their names from the “the mujahedeen to the Taliban but it is all the same people that the US backed and supported. They ARE ISLAMIC JIHADISTS AND THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT PRESIDENT REAGAN HOSTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND CALLED ‘FREEDOM FIGHTERS’.

        • RonaldB says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 9:06 pm

          For Christianblood:
          Sloppy, sloppy. You clearly said “Ronald Reagan, hosted Al-Qaeda and Taliban delegation”. Get that? He hosted a “Taliban delegation”. Oops. No Taliban in 1985. well, not to worry. They’re the same people. Maybe. There’s such a shortage of jihadists in Afghanistan that small jihadist groups just have to overlap in membership. You know: “Don’t sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff”. Why worry over a little thing like whether Reagan hosted a delegation of a group that didn’t exist at the time of the hosting?

        • christianblood says

          Jun 20, 2019 at 8:09 am

          RonaldB

          Jihadists are jihadists no matter the label they take at a given time and as the video I provided above shows Reagan clearly hosted islamic jihadists and BTW, the US still does this all the time! U$ leaders still host, support, dine with and even dance with Islamic terrorists and their leaders!

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2019 at 10:32 am

          christianblood posted:

          “Jihadists are jihadists no matter the label they take at a given time”

          Like Iran or Hezbollah. No, wait, you always seem to find labels to describe those baby killers – “rules for thee but not for me”, etc.

          “U$ leaders still host, support, dine with and even dance with Islamic terrorists and their leaders!”

          Nah, they’re too busy bombing them out of existence. From this very article:

          In February 2008, Mughniyeh was killed in a mysterious explosion following a series of meetings with intelligence officials of the Syrian regime in the region of Kafr Sousse in Damascus. The body responsible for his assassination has been unknown for years. In January, the Washington Post published an investigation into his death that was the result of a joint operation between the CIA and Mossad.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:11 pm

      christianblood does this all the time–grotesquely claiming that Jihad has nothing to do with Islam, but is instead waged by the West (especially Americans and Jews).

  2. christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:43 am

    Satanic liberal, Anti-Christ America is always on the side of islamic jihadists! America is an eternal ally of the global Islamic jihadist movements! Two decades ago, America/Nato backed Balkan jihadists bombed Christian Serbs and established two islamic states (Bosnia & Kosovo) in Eastern Europe! As a result of that, Hundreds of Serbian Orthodox Churches and Monasteries were destroyed by KLA jihadists supported by America and Nato in the region known as ‘Metohija’ alone and a quarter of a million Serb Christian were evicted from their homes in that same region!

    More below!

    • christianblood says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 9:45 am

      20 year anniversary of Nato bombing of Serbia where thousands of Serbian Christians were killed by the US-led Nato in Kosovo in support of KLA jihadists!

  3. christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:48 am

    In Afghanistan, Chechnya, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Kosovo, Bosnia and now in Yemen, satanic, Hollywood-led America is always in the arse of Islamic jihadists! Rania Khalek explains:

    • CRUSADER says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 4:03 pm

      Is Rania Khalek considered Muslim?
      Is she just another pretty face with an outspokenness?
      Does she have skin in the game?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rania_Khalek

      Khalek has reported on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Islamophobia, the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, the Syrian Civil War, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, US presidential elections and the United States criminal justice system.[5][6][7]

      She contributed to AlterNet from 2011 to 2017. Some of her work was published as part of The Grayzone Project.[8]

      Khalek contributed to Truthout between 2012 and 2014.[9] She had a column for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)’s magazine, Extra!, from 2013-2015. [10]

      She launched the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure,” with Gosztola in 2014.[11]

      Khalek was a contributor to The Electronic Intifada from 2013-2016.[12]. She served on the editorial board for a few years but stepped down from her position in October 2016.

      She has appeared on Al Jazeera English and RT America, and in 2017, she briefly was part of Redfish.[citation needed] Khalek has also appeared on The Majority Report with Sam Seder and The Jimmy Dore Show[13]

      Khalek became a contributor for Maffick Media’s “In the Now” video channels.[14] Maffick receives funding from its parent company, Ruptly, in Berlin. RT is a subsidiary of ANO TV Navasti in Moscow, which is the umbrella non-profit media organization that is funded by the Russian government.[15]

      At Khalek’s personal website, “Dispatches From the Underclass,” Khalek posts about her current work. It features links to her freelance journalism from as early as 2012.[16]

      Political views —

      Khalek called Wahhabism a “toxic and hateful religion practiced in Saudi Arabia”.[17] She has criticized U.S.-Saudi Arabia alliance and U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.[17][6]

      During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Khalek wrote that Donald Trump “is hardly the candidate of peace. Nor is he a credible messenger. He’s advocated for killing the families of terrorists, endorses torture, and in his tirade against Clinton, he applauded Saddam Hussein for executing people without trial…Trump did not oppose the invasion [of Iraq] at the time”.[18] She has also criticized Hillary Clinton and her support for the Iraq War and NATO-led military intervention in Libya, and Clinton’s support of dictatorships that rule the Persian Gulf monarchies.[18]

      In 2016 Khalek and other pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a speech at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum given by Avital Leibovich, a retired colonel in the Israel Defense Forces and director of the Jerusalem office of the American Jewish Committee.[19]

      Reception —

      The Jerusalem Post called Khalek “controversial” after a brief Twitter storm erupted in 2019 when Ilhan Omar, a member of Congress, retweeted Khalek, who in turn defended Omar for her opposition to perceived U.S. efforts to change the government of Venezuela.[2]

      During the 2016 presidential campaign, after Khalek wrote that “Clinton is also dangerous to world stability. And unlike Trump, she has the blood on her hands to prove it,” James Kirchick described Khalek as one of a group of progressives who, in Kirchick’s opinion, were “behaving like Weimar-era German communists, who, on Joseph Stalin’s orders, attacked Social Democrats as “social fascists” rather than battle Nazi brown-shirts.”[20] With several other left-wing journalists, Khalek was mentioned in an article the Southern Poverty Law Center retracted after receiving complaints from those journalists that the article falsely portrayed them as “white supremacists, fascists, anti-Semites, and engaging in a conspiracy with the Putin regime to promote such views”; the Center’s letter explaining its retraction of the article specifically apologized to Khalek and other journalists who felt they had been falsely portrayed.[21][22]

      According to Jonathan Marks, a professor of political science at Ursinus College, Khalek is “not a marginal figure” within the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel movement.[23] Khalek has criticized The Nation magazine on the grounds that while the magazine has published numerous articles in support of the Palestinian cause, it nonetheless “reinforces” the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians “by privileging Jewish voices over Palestinian ones.” The critic of Israel policy Eric Alterman took issue with Khalek’s statement, accusing her of antisemitic implication, “have you noticed what the magazine’s real problem is? Too many Jews!”[24] In contrast CounterPunch has praised Khalek for her “honest reporting on Israel and the military”[25]

      Khalek wrote that al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria played a significant role in the armed rebellion against the Assad regime and “while many Syrians who first engaged in peaceful protest later turned to arms in the face of the regime’s crackdown, others continue to do non-violent political work.”[7] The Israeli newspaper Haaretz accused Khalek of “publishing smear attacks against NGOs, medics, journalists, first responders and Syrian civil society groups” opposing the Assad regime during the Syrian Civil War.[26]

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:13 pm

      Yes, CRUSADER–Rania Khalek is Muslim, and seeks the Jihad destruction of Israel. christianblood constantly cites Jihadists.

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 7:08 pm

        Graven & Crusader

        Rania Khalek is a Lebanese Druze, not a Muslim!

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 7:57 pm

          Rania Khalek regularly writes about “Islamophobia” for Al Jazeera, and she regularly defends Jihad terrorists. She founded the Electronic Intifada, hates Jews, and is–as even christianblood does not bother to deny–for the destruction of democratic Israel.

          She has never spoken out against Muslim oppression of the Druze–she has, instead, completely adopted the genocidal hatreds of supremacist Muslims.

          christianblood implication that he cited her because she is Druze is absurd.

        • Christianblood says

          Jun 19, 2019 at 9:05 pm

          gravenimage

          Thousands of Westerners regularly writes about “Islamophobia” and do all the stuff you are accusing of Rania Khalek. Personally, I don’t agree everything Rania says or does but I do agree with her instance on exposing the pro-jihadist, imperialist US and the West as she is 100% correct in that. Again, Rania Khalek is not a Muslim but is a descent of Lebanese Druze minority. Like Christians in Lebanon her Druze people in Lebanon support Hezbollah and are scared of Saudi, US, Israeli and Nato pro-Al-Qaeda, pro-jihadist intentions and would rather die then let those allies of evil come into Lebanon and they are right. .

        • Angemon says

          Jun 20, 2019 at 4:03 am

          christianblood posted:

          “Thousands of Westerners regularly writes about “Islamophobia” and do all the stuff you are accusing of Rania Khalek. ”

          So what? Do you defend those alleged writtings the same way you defend Khalek’s? Or is your support reserved exclusively for backers of the genocidal, Christian-murdering Iran?

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 20, 2019 at 9:18 pm

          The claim that Rania Khalek is terrified of the United States is absurd–she lives here.

          And while it is–disgustingly–true that many Westerners have nattered on about “Islamophobia”, they have not run Jihad sites like “The Electronic Intifada”, as christianblood pretends.

  4. christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:50 am

    Osama Bin-Laden was America’s hero before he turned its most wanted.
    See the Newspaper of the time below:

    http://theduran.com/osama-a-hero-turned-most-wanted/

    • RonaldB says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 11:24 am

      Yeah.

      We turned a bit hostile to Osama when he blew up our embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam. Who would have thought? What’s the point?

      • Christianblood says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 7:28 pm

        RonaldB

        Good point!

  5. christianblood says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:55 am

    America is giving billions in arms to (Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia) the very people who attacked them on 9/11! Watch:

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:15 pm

      christianblood always starts spamming up a storm whenever anyone dares say anything critical of his beloved Mullahs–on another thread today he refuses to say anything negative about forced Hijab and abuse of women in Iran. What a surprise…sar/off

  6. RonaldB says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 11:41 am

    I do have a question concerning the network of assistance described in the article by Rami Damas. According to him (her?), Iran provided critical help for the 9/11 hijackers and continues to supply al Qaeda in Syria. Al Qada is a root of the Islamic State, fighting a death match with the Syrian government, also supported by Iran. Hezbollah and the Iranian forces are fighting in Syria against the Islamic State. So, according to you, Iran is supplying money, troops and training to both sides. Do you have Iranians shooting at each other in Syria? Nice thought, but I’d need more evidence to take it as fact.

    Similarly for Iranian support for 9/11; 9 of the hijackers were Saudi, and there is some pretty strong evidence the hijackers were receiving support from the Saudi aristocracy. So, major players in Saudi Arabia are working hand-in-hand with Shia Iran, their mortal enemy? How interesting.

    For the record, I do not favor US involvement in the Middle East. Let them sort it out themselves. I am fully aware of the extensive US intervention in the area, including our destroying the Libyan government for absolutely no reason. I’ve read speculation that Libya was going to mess with gold-backed money in competition to paper-based and electronically-created US money, but I don’t have a clue if that’s actually the case.

    • Chand says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 12:06 pm

      Yes, this essay is interesting but a bit hard to believe and so more evidence has to be shown. I know some of the 9/11 hijackers passed through Iran but that is different from direct collusion.
      Israeli journalist Ronan Bergman’s book is mentioned when the creation of Hezbollah in Lebanon with Muganieh’s help is narrated but it is not clear if all of Muganieh’s handiworks mentioned subsequently by Rami Dabbas comes from that book too.
      What is the source of these claims by Rami?

      • Chand says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 12:09 pm

        Sorry, typos………..should be Mughniyeh, not Muganieh.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 4:06 pm

      Israel is in the Middle East, as is Turkey, as is oil….which many Western allies depend upon.

      Or are these areas (aside from Iran) considered Near East?

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:17 pm

      Ronald, Sunnis and Shia have indeed worked together before against the Kufar:

      “Islamic Republic of Iran admits to facilitating 9/11 jihad attacks”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/06/islamic-republic-of-iran-admits-to-facilitating-9-11-jihad-attacks

  7. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    Warning: Don’t take the person called “Christianblood ” seriously. He’s a FSB/KGB troll. Want proof? Who else has the videos and works as hard as he/they do to make this site look bad. Next he’ll be ranting how wonderful Putin is, that Russia is a Christian/Capitalist country, even though they support Communism is Venezuela , Cuba, China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    You can spot these a-holes on many Conservative American sites.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:14 pm

      Agree – ignore, and don’t take the bait.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 5:18 pm

      Yeah, he’s a nasty piece of work. One small point, though–he also hates free trade, and regularly rants against it here.

    • Christianblood says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 7:12 pm

      Paul N Silas

      I only point out the facts, I troll for no body but for the Truth alone! Every video I shared and every statement I made above is a PURE FACT! It is a typical leftist tactics to attack the messenger when they can’t stand the truthfulness of the message and that is what you are trying to do!

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 8:28 pm

        As usual, all of this spam is just intended to distract from the appalling actions of his beloved Mullahs. Just sad.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 20, 2019 at 3:51 am

        “I only point out the facts”

        Like when you claimed Assad was a secular leader or that the children murdered in Nice deserved it?

  8. Angemon says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    Eh. 8 of the (as I read this page) 14 comments are made by the notorious Iran-backer, West (and especially Israel) hating going by the moniker “christianblood” (I guess that’s something he loves to see?), with none of each being anything more than Soviet era whataboutism and anti-US propaganda. As the saying goes: “if you’re getting flack, you’re over the target” – and I bet this article hit the bullseye…

    • Angemon says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 1:33 pm

      PS: that amount of posts in that amount of time, with none of them having anything to do with the topic at hand? There’s a term for that: spam…

    • Paul N Silas says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 2:43 pm

      I think his new name should be Christian Clown…just say’n

    • Christianblood says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 7:17 pm

      Angemon

      Every video I shared and every statement I made above is irrefutable PURE FACT.
      Leftists can’t stand the truth and they attack the messenger and that is what you are doing. Shame on you! The Truth will find you all but then it may be too late!
      U$A is indeed a satanic and destructive mafia state! Watch:

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 19, 2019 at 9:15 pm

        Jimmy Dore is a 9/11 “Truther”.

      • Angemon says

        Jun 20, 2019 at 4:14 am

        christianblood posted:

        “Every video I shared and every statement I made above is irrefutable PURE FACT.”

        Even if that were the case – which it clearly isn’t – it’s completely unrelated to the topic at hand, which is the support your precious little shia islamic state gives to sunni terror groups. You don’t deny it because you can’t because it’s the truth – ergo, turn on the “whataboutery” propaganda machine.

        BTW, are you still living in a Western nation?

  9. Angemon says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    In his book The Secret War with Iran, Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman notes that the Syrian regime pledged during the 1982 summer meeting in Damascus to give full support to Iran’s efforts to establish Hezbollah.

    Just yesterday I mentioned this to a poster who called Hezbollah an “indigenous” movement in Lebanon.

    By 2002, Mughniyeh was supporting Shiite and Sunni armed groups throughout the Middle East, under the guidance of the Iranian regime.

    Should come as no surprise to any savvy kaffir – the only thing shia and sunnis hate more than one another are infidels…

  10. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    That despicable vicious and malice-filled tyrannical mullahs regime of Iran has a history in this twenty -first century as well as the last century the of forming alliances of Qu ran based jihad terrorism with heinous fruits of mass murder and mayhem.

    As in the last century is an example of this may be seen in a awful ,murderous even which a number of people appear to have now appear to have mostly forgotten by most people was that malicious and deadly jihad bombing on December 21,1988 of that Pam Am flight 103, Lockerbie bombing disaster. Iran might have had a part in that murderous affront. With those malicious and spite-filled mullahs and other tyrants in power in Iran with their malice-filled Islamic hate for Americans and America. Those malice-filled mullahs and ayatollahs as well as other sinister and insidious fiends in control of Iran with their destructive intentions.

    This information has been given by a former Revolutionary Guard member, Reza Kahlili, for Iran who defected to the United States. This information about Iran’s possible involvement in that Pam Am bombing is from his book, which is entitled A TIME TO BETRAY pages 291,292, 294, 296.

    Further in this current century there is that September 11, 2001 jihad murderous affront against both humankind and America the following might be interesting to some people. A type of thinking of many from Middle East is the sayings that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This type of Middle Eastern “philosophy” may explain, to a degree, how Muslims of two different branches of Islam which are hostile to each other can work together against what they perceive as a “common enemy.”

    In this case the mullahs and other in power in Shi ‘ite Iran can work with the jihadists of al Qaeda against which they see as “The Great Satan” By that term they mean the United States of America. As the Muslim author, Rohan Gunaratna , explained in his book INSIDE AL QAEDA . For on page 198 it reveals that among different Islamic terror organizations that “Ideological tolerance and inter-group cohesion as a means confronting a common enemy.” So another author, Robert Spencer, in his book which is entitled THE COMPLETE INFIDEL’S GUIDE TO IRAN supply’s information about this topic. It has been keyboarded that this book reveals “Iran’s long –standing support of terrorists- including shocking evidence that Iran helped plain the 9/11 attack.”

    The many evils of this Islamic regime of Iran has no limit to its many evils.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jun 19, 2019 at 4:10 pm

      Is Libya, or Sudan, or Somalia, or Turkey, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia etc
      can keep USA guessing and with flames to America’s toes, they will do so….

      We play games in the West as well, with alliances of convenience.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 3:14 pm

    As for Iran’s jihad alliance with al Qaeda and ISIS is as demonic as it is sinister .

    Such This joining of jihad forces in the end is doomed and fated to fail.

    Furthermore, this union of the jihadist /Muslims will only be counted against them to their harm.

    As it is written ,in the Bible , in Proverbs 11:21. “Though they join forces , the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Iran’s Ties to the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
    ………………….

    This is true. Sunnis and Shia may hate each other, but they hate the “filthy Infidels” more, and often act in concert against us.

  13. TC says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 10:28 pm

    Iran Is More Deeply Tied to ISIS Than You Think – The Tower
    As the West continues to partner with Iran to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State, it is worth remembering that one of Iran’s highest-ranking terrorists was instrumental in founding Al-Qaeda, and that the split between Shia and Sunni jihadis is murky at best…

  14. Indiana Tom says

    Jun 20, 2019 at 5:51 am

    Old news. Been going on for years.

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