Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected the US State Department’s annual report, which accused Iran of being the “top state sponsor of terrorism,” saying that the accusations of Iran supporting Palestinian groups merely amounted to supporting the fight for freedom.
“The legitimate struggle of nations which are occupied are not examples of terrorism,” insisted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Ansari, who went on to insist that the US had itself provided “destructive support for terrorist groups” across the region.
The State Department report didn’t offer a lot of details to support the labeling of Iran as the “top” terror state, mostly focusing on past support for Palestinian groups and their involvement in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
For the most part, the terror sponsors list is a political tool rather than a practice report, including only a handful of nations annually, all of whom the US doesn’t get along with. Making Iran the “top” nation is virtually obligatory, since Israeli officials constantly refer to it as such, and not doing so would’ve sparked a new row with Israel.
As always it depends on whose ox gets gored. The Turkish government considers the Kurds which fight with our military support in Syria and Iraq to be terrorists hence we support terrorism as far as the Turks are concerned.
America is the greatest purveyor and exporter of terrorism and violence, it’s the world’s leading arms dealer, and it’s customer base includes at least 96 countries, which is nearly half of the world’s nations.
The U.S. determines and others obey.
Indeed.
Iran is probably correct. Its Israel that is always claiming Iran supports terrorists.
“the US State Department’s … report,”
Credibility check: Victoria Nuland’s Neocon-owned State Department. Formerly headed by enthusiastic Neocon rubber stamp tool Hillary Clinton.
Reality-based version: the Zionist-subverted (ie, bribed/threatened) US Govt, and geopolitical-crime-in-progress Zionazi Israel are the world’s top state sponsors of terrorism. But then, everyone on this site knew that already.