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* Iran's security forces conducted several bombings against Iranian dissidents abroad. |
* Iran's security forces conducted several bombings against Iranian dissidents abroad. |
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* Iran has increasingly encouraged and supported—with money, training, and weapons—terrorist groups such as Hizballah, HAMAS, the PIJ, and Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-GC. |
* Iran has increasingly encouraged and supported—with money, training, and weapons—terrorist groups such as Hizballah, HAMAS, the PIJ, and Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-GC. |
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* Iran continues to provide a safehaven to elements of PKK, a Kurdish |
* Iran continues to provide a safehaven to elements of PKK, a Kurdish militant group that has conducted numerous attacks in Turkey and against Turkish targets in Europe. |
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* Iran also provides support to terrorist groups in North Africa and South and Central Asia, including financial assistance and training. |
* Iran also provides support to terrorist groups in North Africa and South and Central Asia, including financial assistance and training. |
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The Report of the National Commission on Terrorism, also known as the Bremer Commission, "Countering The Changing Threat of International Terrorism", Pursuant to Public Law 277, 105th Congress, was published June 2000. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III served as Chairman, and Maurice Sonnenberg served as Vice Chairman.
The most controversial conclusions included the Report's call "for the monitoring of all foreign students, using criminals and terrorists as American spies, and making wiretapping easier" (Lodal, 2001, p. 100).
The report clearly names state sponsors of terrorism including Iran and Syria. It specifically says this about Iran's involvement:
The Department of State's 1999 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" provides the following account of Iranian support for terrorism:
It recommends name Afghanistan, under the Taliban, as a state sponsor:
"Recommendation:
(See Appendix C of the Report)