Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹@angeloinchina
🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 A common claim from US officials is that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world. However, that is the most ridiculous assertion imaginable.
After 9/11, the Iranian government gave their condolences and offered to help the United States fight against Al Qaeda in the Middle East because the terrorist organization had been a long-time enemy of Iran. Russia made similar assurances to Washington, as they had been fighting against Al Qaeda in the Chechen Wars.
At first, Iran was very cooperative with US forces, helping the NATO coalition launch strikes on Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. However, just a few months later, George W. Bush gave his infamous 2002 State of the Union address where he declared the existence of an Axis of Evil that included Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba, all of whom had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
And it was on that basis that the Bush Administration, as confirmed by General Wesley Clark established a five-year plan to attack seven Middle Eastern countries who also had nothing to do with 9/11 and were sworn enemies of Al Qaeda:
🇮🇶 Iraq (2003)
🇸🇾 Syria (2011-2024)
🇱🇧Lebanon (2006, 2024)
🇱🇾 Libya (2011)
🇸🇴 Somalia (2007)
🇸🇩Sudan (2019)
🇮🇷 Iran (2026)
After the US invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein, they allowed Al Qaeda and ISIS to rise as some of the most powerful political forces in the country and then later armed them in Libya and Syria to carry out regime change against Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad via Operation Timber Sycamore.
Al-Baghdadi and Jolani had become puppets of the US, Britain and Israel in Syria in a landscape of chaos that was manufactured by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad. Jake Sullivan openly declared that Al Qaeda was on our side in Syria and Hillary Clinton expressed hope for religious conflict breaking out between Sunnis and Shiites in the country on the grounds that it would be beneficial to Israel.
Furthermore, these terror groups had the full support of Western media who claimed that they reformed themselves simply just because they wore suits.
In 2014, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps under the command of General Qasem Soleimani took to the frontlines in the fight against Al Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The Russians joined forces with the Iranians and President Assad in 2015.
And despite General Soleimani’s role in fighting ISIS, the United States killed him in a drone strike in January 2020 in the name of “fighting terrorism.”
The United States was the main sponsor of these Sunni extremist terror groups going all the way back to the 1980s, offering weapons and financial assistance to the Afghan Mujahideen via Operation Cyclone during the war with the Soviet Union. British media was writing articles referring to Osama bin Laden as a freedom fighter.
Washington’s grudge with the Iranians is that they are arming the Palestinian resistance fighters who are waging an armed struggle for freedom from a genocidal Israeli occupation that has killed 680K Palestinians in the most recent war.
To put it very simply, the biggest state sponsors of terror are the US, Britain, EU and Israel. Iran and Russia are among the most prominent enemies of terrorism around the globe.
Author: Jason Zaharis