I warned about Iranian support for al-Qaeda in my 2016 book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Nice to see the State Department catching up to me.
“Iran remains worst state-sponsor of terror, works with al-Qaeda,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, November 4, 2019:
The US State Department’s new report on terrorism lists the Islamic Republic of Iran as the top international state-sponsor of terrorism and cites Tehran’s work with facilitating the activities of Sunni terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
“Iran remains the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism,” noted the document titled, “Country Reports on Terrorism 2018” that was released on Friday. “The regime has spent nearly one billion dollars per year to support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe. Tehran has funded international terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It also has engaged in its own terrorist plotting around the world, particularly in Europe.”
The report said that “Tehran continued to allow an AQ [al-Qaeda] facilitation network to operate in Iran, which sends fighters and money to conflict zones in Afghanistan and Syria, and it has extended sanctuary to AQ members residing in the country.”
“At the same time, the United States and its partners continued to pursue al-Qa’ida (AQ) globally, and the United States applied maximum pressure on Iran-backed terrorism, significantly expanding sanctions on Iranian state actors and proxies and building stronger international political will to counter those threats,” the State Department said.
Germany and the EU have refused to designate Hezbollah’s entire organization a terrorist group. According to German intelligence reports reviewed by The Jerusalem Post, 1,050 Hezbollah members and supporters operate in Germany. The Hezbollah operatives raise funds for Hezbollah in Lebanon, recruit new members and spread antisemitic and jihadi ideologies in Europe. The Netherlands, Canada, the US, Israel, Britain and the Arab League proscribed Hezbollah’s entire entity a terrorist organization.
“Hezbollah remained Iran’s most powerful terrorist partner and the most capable terrorist organization in Lebanon, controlling areas across the country,” wrote the State Department’s counterterrorism experts. “Iran’s annual financial backing to Hezbollah – an estimated US $700 million per year – accounts for the overwhelming majority of the group’s annual budget. Hezbollah’s presence in Lebanon and Syria continued to pose a threat to Israel.”…
Janwaar Bibi says
The US and its allies funnel a billion dollars worth of weapons every year to Al-Qaeda front groups in Syria like Al Nusra and to ISIS. At one point, ISIS was using WhatsApp to deliver the shopping lists to the CIA. Google “Operation Timber Sycamore” to get details. From the wiki article on this operation:
“A 2017 study conducted by private company Conflict Armament Research at the behest of the European Union and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit found that external support for anti-Assad Syrian rebels “significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to [ISIL] forces,” including, in the most rapid case diversion they documented, “anti-tank weapons purchased by the United States that ended up in possession of the Islamic State within two months of leaving the factory.”
But it is Iran that supports terrorism!
Angemon says
“The US and its allies funnel a billion dollars worth of weapons every year to Al-Qaeda front groups in Syria like Al Nusra and to ISIS.”
Citation needed.
“At one point, ISIS was using WhatsApp to deliver the shopping lists to the CIA. Google “Operation Timber Sycamore” to get details. From the wiki article on this operation:
“A 2017 study conducted by private company Conflict Armament Research at the behest of the European Union and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit found that external support for anti-Assad Syrian rebels “significantly augmented the quantity and quality of weapons available to [ISIL] forces,” including, in the most rapid case diversion they documented, “anti-tank weapons purchased by the United States that ended up in possession of the Islamic State within two months of leaving the factory.””
Misguided as that operation may have been, supporting groups that later pledged allegiance to ISIS is not the deliberate and willing support of islamic terror groups described in the article above.
“But it is Iran that supports terrorism!”
Yes, for decades now.
Janwaar Bibi says
In case you are really unaware of what is happening around you, here is a statement from Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard:
https://gabbard.house.gov/news/StopArmingTerrorists
“Under U.S. law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups…Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and partners of al-Qaeda, ISIL, Jabhat Fateh al Sham and other terrorist groups with money, weapons, and intelligence support, in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. The CIA has also been funneling weapons and money through Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and others who provide direct and indirect support to groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda….A recent New York Times article confirmed that ‘rebel groups’ supported by the U.S. ‘have entered into battlefield alliances with the affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria, formerly known as al Nusra.’…Reports confirm that ‘every armed anti-Assad organization unit in those provinces [of Idlib and Aleppo] is engaged in a military structure controlled by [al-Qaeda’s] Nusra militants.’”
Misguided as that operation may have been, …
You fellows really need to give the “That was the day that America lost its innocence” garbage a rest. The elites who rule Washington and London are not “misguided” – they are cold, ruthless killers who have supported, among other major league swine, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussain, the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Pakistani butchers, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, and dozens of brutal dictators in Central and South America over the decades. If you fellows are really so habitually “misguided”, may be you need to work on raising your IQs instead of killing people in other countries.
Angemon says
“IIn case you are really unaware of what is happening around you, here is a statement from Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard:”
An aspiring Presidential candidate? Gee, I’m sure she only has nice things to say about the current administration… /sarc. off
Of course, not surprising to see pro-Iran shills supporting her – after all, she woould have the US re-enter the disastrous nuclear deal. In any case, appeal to authority is a logical fallacy, and so is tu quoque…. And, yes, Iran is a terrorism-sponsoring nation. It has been so for decades. Whatever you say about the US takes nothing away from it.
gravenimage says
Tulsi Gabbard is a big supporter of Islam–this is well known.
Infidel says
Well, Gabbard has specifically gone out of her way to oppose fighting/overthrowing the entitites in bold above. On al Qaeda and ISIS, she doesn’t have a choice, but other than that, the only Islamic entity that she opposes is Saudi Arabia. She’s condemned the overthrow of Saddam (in retrospect, she may be right about that), opposes fighting the Taliban, has nothing to say about the Pakistani butchers, and very specifically opposes the removal of Maduro in Venezuela as a part of her opposition to regime change wars.
If the above passage was from any Gabbard media release, she has no idea about what she says or wants. She’s just desperate at her political career now ending, since she’d probably lose even her primary in Hawaii were she to run again: to say nothing about her run for president
Infidel says
Only thing Gabbard is right about re: al Qaeda is something Hugh pointed out as well – in the Yemeni civil war, AQAP is one of the combatants on the Saudi side, and provides the bulk of the manpower. Since the Saudis just bomb from the air and don’t have too many troops. As 1991 proved, they are a paper tiger and can at best pay foreign mercenaries to fight their wars for them.
But hopefully, unlike the Syrian civil war where the Russians forced an end, the Yemeni civil war won’t end anytime soon. The Iranians will continue fueling the Houthis, while AQAP will continue the counter-jihad against the Zaidis. And may that continue forever!
gravenimage says
Janwaar Bibi’s shtick has always been that the ‘filthy Infidels’ are responsible for Jihad terror.
gravenimage says
Janwaar Bibi is a big supporter of the Mullahs. Here’s more of his apologia for the vicious Iranians:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/the-iranian-support-for-al-qaeda-jihad-terrorism
He has also claimed that the United States created Jihad terror, and deserved 9/11.
He also hates Jews.
He hasn’t posted here for a while, but his ugly comments are easy to find.
Infidel says
He? Bibi means ‘wife’ or ‘woman’ in urdu, while ‘Janwaar’ means beast. This is a made-up name, and the gender is questionable
gravenimage says
I know that Bibi means “wife” in Urdu, Infidel. But as I recall, Janwaar Bibi has said things over the years that point to this poster likely being male. In any case, a nasty piece of work.
And thank you for the translation of “Janwaar”, which I was not familiar with.
Spiro says
Is that what Obama (the Muslim ) had in mind with the pallet
load of cash he had delivered to Iran
The left useful idiots go after Trump maybe he’s upsetting the apple cart
FYI says
Deep down,he surely knows his koran is utter Shite:it’s definitely not Sunny.
Walter Sieruk says
The above article about that “mullah regime” of Iran and al Qaeda working together isa firm reminder that after the extermination of Osama bin Laden by the Heroic Navy SEAL’s the son of the Muslim terrorist chief fled to Iran ,according to FOX News, the point being the Shite Iran welcomed and gave safe housing to him ins spite of bin Laden’s son being and Sunni Muslim and al Qaeda a Sunni Islamic terror organization . Even through in history and in current time Sunni Muslim and Shite Muslim hate each other . This safe housing given to Bin Laden‘s son was not out of love and kindness for him. He was given safety in Iran because both Iran and al Qaeda hate the United States even more than the hate each other.
Therefore , all this leads to the subject of Iran and 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 intergroup 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.”
Janwaar Bibi says
Bin Laden’s son may have fled to Iran but bin Laden himself was hiding in Pakistan, his home a few hundred feet from Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the chief organizer of 9/11, was caught in Pakistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri is believed to be in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan. So when are you guys going to attack Pakistan and bring it to its knees for harboring terrorists?
How about never? Instead of attacking them, you send them billions of dollars of aid and praise them as “partners in the war on terrorism!”
gravenimage says
None of these thuggish Muslim countries are our allies. Not Pakistan, and not Iran.
The US under Trump has cut aid to Pakistan:
“U.S. Cuts $300 Million In Aid To Pakistan; Says It’s Failing To Fight Militants”
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/02/644117490/u-s-cuts-300-million-in-aid-to-pakistan-says-its-failing-to-fight-militants
Jaqnwaar Bibi desperately hopes the ‘filthy Infidels’ at Jihad Watch don’t know this.
gravenimage says
Janwaar Bibi
Infidel says
That was that cretin Bush. Even Obama wasn’t as stupid: he kept Pakistan in the dark even as he authorized the raid on Abbotabad that took out Osama. And like Gravenimage notes above, Trump has ended the $300 million aid to Pakistan.
There is no reason to send any US troops to Pakistan, although it would be nice if we could take out their nuke facilities in Balochistan