With Secretary of State John Kerry still in the midst of intense, positive negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal and a potential rapprochement, the State Department underscores just how far US-Iran relations have yet to improve.
According to Senate officials, the State Department has “reiterated” that Iran is an official part of their “state sponsors of terrorism” list, and has accused the nation of “increased” terror activities in recent months.
Senate aides leaked comments to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the matter, dubbing Iran a “security concern to the international community” and insisting it stands behind past allegations.
The comments are just more fodder for Congressional hawks to push for more sanctions against Iran. That could seriously jeopardize the prospect of a nuclear deal, and in that regard the State Department’s determination to reiterate old allegations appears at cross purposes with the administration’s effort to delay new sanctions.
Well, look who is calling the kettle black…..Who is supporting the rebels in Syria, who is hacking off people's neck and eating their organs?
I guess when it comes to our government labeling someone as "terrorist supporters' they should know – having not only supported terrorists (in Syria and Iraq and Israel) but also directly participating in terrorist acts such as drone killings and cyber-terrorism (Stuxnet) and the assassination of nuclear (or nukalar if you prefer) scientists in Iran.
The State Department does provide value-for-money as a comedy act*** – I've just had to clean my monitor screen.
In the interests of balance, I should say I'm not one of the suckers who pays for it, the State Department, that is.
Uncle Sam and his pinfeathered, pinheaded hawks have created more terrorists than any other nation in history. And don't forget the white hats. They wear the white hats !
The USA is a terror state like nothing Iran could ever even dream of achieving if it wanted to.
From the USA torturing people in dozens of countries, to running terrorist training camps like the School of the Americas, to carrying out many terrorist bombings, to constant aggression (which counts as terrorism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and every other crime, by its Nuremberg definition), to shielding and literally granting presidential pardons to terrorists such as Orlando Bosch, who received a presidential pardon from Bush 1, Louis Posada Carriles, and hundreds of others, to having political assassination as a US policy, assassinating hundreds of people through 12 presidencies, to dumping millions of gallons of weaponized chemicals onto civilians, to dropping nuclear bombs on two civilian cities, to helping to form and fund the Taliban, to forming an Axis of Evil with Europe and Saddam Hussein to invade Iran and kill hundreds of thousands of Iranians (and Kurds) with chemical weapons supplied by the US and Europe, with the US also giving intelligence and diplomatic cover…
The US has been complicit in the deaths of about 1,025,300 Iranians.
What does Iran do?
Iran funds Hezbollah, which the US alleges killed 241 US citizens in a bombing that was in retaliation to a US bombing that the US had just carried out.
"Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and was primarily formed to offer resistance to the Israeli occupation." -Wiki
Okay… So Iran helps Lebanon resist US terrorism, therefore… Iran sponsors terrorism!
There you have it! The privilege of great power, to declare the exact opposite to be the truth, and have many people believe it uncritically.
Every time the US gets caught with its hand in someone else's pocket, the US yells "Thief! Thief!"