Iran is Shi’ite and al-Qaeda is Sunni, but Iran has already shown by its financing of Hamas that it is happy to work with Sunnis against the infidels. Remember also that in 2018, Iran admitted to helping to facilitate the 9/11 jihad attacks. Find out more about Iran’s little-noted involvement in 9/11 in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.
“Iran Is Al Qaeda’s New Home Base, Pompeo Says,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2021:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed Tuesday that al Qaeda’s number-two leader was killed last year in Iran, which Pompeo said has become the terror group’s primary base of operations in recent years.
“Al Qaeda has a new home base: the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Pompeo said during a small gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Al Qaeda leader Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was on the FBI’s most wanted list, was murdered in the streets of Tehran in August of last year, Pompeo said, confirming media reports at the time. This is the first time the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged al-Masri’s death.
The United States is now offering up to $7 million for information leading to the identification of al Qaeda leader Abd Al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, who Pompeo said is currently hiding in Iran. Al-Maghrebi is the head of al Qaeda’s media arm and oversees the group’s activities worldwide.
Pompeo’s announcement is certain to rile the foreign-policy world and raise questions about President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to reenter the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which provided Tehran with billions in cash that were spent bolstering the country’s terror operations. With just days left in office, Pompeo vowed to “crush the Iran-al Qaeda axis.”
While Iran and al Qaeda have widely been seen as rivals due to their religious differences, Pompeo said their relationship changed in 2015, when the Obama administration inked the nuclear agreement.
“Iran decided to allow al Qaeda to establish a new operational headquarters, on the condition that al Qaeda operatives inside abide by the regime’s rules,” Pompeo said, disclosing intelligence that he claimed has been previously unreleased. “Since 2015, Iran has also given al Qaeda leaders greater freedom of movement inside Iran.”
Al Qaeda’s senior leadership is now taking refuge in Iran, which has provided the terror group with logistical support, such as travel documents, ID cards, and passports. “Al Qaeda has centralized its leadership inside Tehran,” Pompeo said, adding that “Iran is the new Afghanistan.”…
“They have time and money. They have a range of Iranian support. They have new tools for terror,” he said. “The worst state sponsor of terrorism in the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is now al Qaeda’s home base.”
Pompeo also disclosed that the United States has “far less visibility” on al Qaeda and its capabilities because of the lack of U.S. intelligence sources in Iran. This leaves the United States with few options to combat the terror group as it plans its next attacks….
Daniel Triplett says
One day we’ll deeply regret not destroying Iran’s nuke production infrastructure while Trump was still in power.
roberta says
Someday Pompeo will be the president of the USA. He will waste no time, talk, or energy on these fools. Diplomacy will drop from the sky.
Westman says
So, the Iranian regime is the new “Taliban”?
tgusa says
With a new administration coming in it looks like a new and improved Iran deal will be in the making. I’m sure the Iranian regime is excited.
The Iran deal released up to $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets, lifted international sanctions and provided Iran with hundreds of billions in relief.
Look over there, not over here.
Infidel says
Somehow, I find it hard to take seriously any conversation about Iran and jihad terror, w/o factoring in the Turkish role in it. Iran is well recognized as a rogue country, despite the attempts of European countries and the Biden administration to legitimize it. But Turkey is still on paper a NATO ‘ally’, and everyone looks the other way while they back ISIS, Jabhat al Nusra, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Libya’s GNA, Boko Haram amongst others. Iran is in no position to bankroll all these jihadist groups the way Turkey can
tgusa says
You are not supposed to pay any attention to the man (or men) behind the curtain. That is a big no no Infidel.
St. Croix says
Oh yeah. Before it’s all over, you will probably see Iran and Turkey cooperating openly, joined by Palestinians, Pakistan, Qatar, Azherbaijan, Afghanistan, and others, to punish Israel and their allies, Egypt, the Saudi Peninsula, and all those who have allied with Israel by trade, cooperation, etc. With the U.S. weakened from within, with Europe struggling to fight off jihadis who are already stationed inside the perimeters, who will go their aid?
I know it sounds unbelievable. But don’t underestimate the use of taqiyyah and kitman to get the Israelis and “allies” to let their guard down, through some kind of deal or peace agreement. I bet Turkey will be the ringleader, and it will be imitating the peace deals recently brokered through the Trump administration…but it will be a ruse to gain access to Jerusalem–greater access than Turkey already has. For they have established Turkish “cultural centres” in Jerusalem already.
Readers of Jihadwatch will know about the plans they have as part of the Islamic Summit Conferences. https://www.memri.org/reports/online-conferences-sponsored-turkey-call-consolidate-turkish-presence-jerusalem-say-turkish
Infidel says
St Croix, all that is perfectly believable. Just one random data point: Pakistan doesn’t recognize Armenia as an independent country at all, so it’ll fit swimmingly into the ambitions of Turkey and Azerbaijan
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic republic of iran, or as that should be rightly called, that “Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran” has now embraced that Jihad murder terror entity al Qaeda .
In spite of Iran being controlled by Shiite Islam and al al Qaeda being Sunni Islam .The joined to geater in violent and murderous jihad against the Western nations and in specfic the United States of America with an alliance of arrogant spite and hate against all things of the West .
Western countries, Western laws , Western customs of ,of course, all Western people.
This Islamic alliance of blind irrational fihad Muslim hatred all humans of the West and and things Western in jihadist joining of forces for more vicious,violent malicious and murderous Islamic terror attacks people and countries Western is a strong reminder that the Bible infords is reader in Proverbs 11:21
“Though they join forces ,the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
gravenimage says
Pompeo: ‘Al Qaeda has a new home base: the Islamic Republic of Iran’
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Hey, could be. Iran hates Infidels more than even Sunni Muslims.
robert lane carley says
Obama gave $150 billion or more to Iran. Al Queda is now harbored by Iran. Conceivable that American money given to an Islamic State could wind up being spent to try and destruct America, in a number of ways.