The World’s Leading State Sponsor Of Terror: Iran Or America?

SPUTNIK NEWS / BATTLE FOR WORLD – September 21, 2018: The article highlights points from a Sputnik News interview conducted with Dr. Mohammad Marandi on Thursday (September 20). Where he was asked the question: Who is really the global leader in the sponsorship of terrorism? And he replied: In my opinion, the US government.”

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Dr. Marandi continues, regarding Lebanon, ever since Hezbollah was created — and it was created as a result of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon [in 2006] as national resistance organization, which liberated the south of Lebanon and forced the Israelis to exit the country. So the creation of  Hezbollah was a result of Israeli violence. Hezbollah has an armed wing that is in coordination with the Lebanese army and is accepted by the state. It is felt [by Lebanon] that it is necessary as a deterrence for further Israeli aggression.

As a matter of fact, in the years since the rise of Western and Saudi-backed extremists in Syria and the takeover of territory in Lebanon by these extremist groups, including ISIS [Daesh] and al-Qaeda, it was Hezbollah along with the army that helped to defeat and expel these groups from the country. So I think that one could say that it is with the help of Hezbollah that the country has remained independent and that both the Israeli occupation and the existence of [Daesh] and al-Qaeda, or the Nusra Front, on Lebanese territory has come to an end.

And with Syria, it’s the same argument. I would just add that again, as in Lebanon, where foreign powers such as the United States and regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, which helped the extremists in Syria — the spillover in Lebanon was blocked by Hezbollah. And the same applies to Syria where US-backed and Western-backed and Saudi-backed and Israeli-backed extremists such as al-Qaeda and [Daesh,] they are using different extremists groups with each one supported by a different foreign power, sometimes simultaneously different powers at the same time. Iran, Hezbollah and the Russians, as well as Iraqi and Afghani volunteers, helped push them back. Otherwise, if it wasn’t for their support, black flags would have been flying over Damascus, and the same is true for Iraq.

Continuing, he said: In reality, the countries that have promoted violence in these countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are the countries that have been promoting Wahhabism (i.e. Islamic extremism). It’s the same thing that had happened in Afghanistan in the 1980′s. The United States and Saudi Arabia in the 1990′s created extremists in Afghanistan and now they’ve repeated this only much more extensively in Syria. The US policy of supporting extremists is nothing new, we saw it in Afghanistan and also Central American with the right-wing groups and the contras in Nicaragua, so this is nothing new for the United States.

General Michael Flynn, the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency at that time, he has admitted that the United States took a willful decision to support its allies and client regimes in the region in their support for extremists. So, happened in Syria, with the spillover in Iraq and in Lebanon, is what happened in Afghanistan in the 1980s, only that it was a much larger catastrophe that was brought about by the western intelligence agencies cooperating with regional dictatorships by and large, especially Saudi Arabia.

With Iraq, the main problem with Western media and Western think tanks is that they try to present the situation in the region as they would like it to be. For example, they said that opponents of Iran won the election. But it has happened that despite immense US pressure, the US candidate, who is the current Prime Minister of Iraq, doesn’t seem to have any chance of remaining as Prime Minister and the groups that are closer to Iran are forming the government [of Iraq] despite US threats — US pressure and contacts from senior officials — Secretary Pompeo made phone calls, the Special Envoy in Iraq [made calls] — they were cooperating with the Saudis and Emiratis to form a government that was close to the United States and hostile to Iran. But they failed.

Now Yemen: The Iranians don’t even have a real presence there, because the Yemenis are — this is one of the extraordinary things about the world that we live in — and it is that the Yemenis are surrounded by the Americans and the Saudis. The Americans and the Saudis have done something unprecedented in contemporary human history, in that they have imposed mass starvation on the whole country in order to bring the people to their knees with the aid of American weapons. Americans have been refueling their air force [in Saudi Arabia] [during air strike missions].  And together they [the United States and Saudis] are imposing this siege to prevent food from getting into the country.

Leaked State Department memo reveals Mike Pompeo backed continued US involvement in war on Yemen because a cut off would undermine 2 billion dollar deal to sell 120,000 @Raytheon precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates https://t.co/VJAzwQnenA

— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) September 20, 2018

This monstrous act was done on the same day that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “the government of Saudi Arabia and the government of the United Arab Emirates are undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.” https://t.co/cq1wFIpqMg

— Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) September 13, 2018

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