3 weeks ago - The sanctions were expanded in ... with the Iranian government. After the fall of the Shah in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran established the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to domestically promote the government's social policy. IRGC is accused of spreading its ideology in neighboring regions by training and funding "terrorist ...

Since 1984, the government of Iran has been designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian external operations, including support for proxy terrorists and Shia militia groups, have played a central role in supporting ...

of its ability to compel the United States to concede to Iranian demands— · encouraging further terrorist activities against Western interests.

The creation of a free and democratic ... has opted to prevent the attainment of these policies by supporting terrorist organizations and pursuing policies that act against United States national security interests....

March 5, 2025 - These Palestinian terrorist groups ... maintains a robust offensive cyber program and has sponsored cyber attacks against foreign government and private sector entities....

March 5, 2025 - Iran views the Assad regime in Syria as a crucial ally and Iraq and Syria as vital routes through which to supply weapons to Hizballah, Iran’s primary terrorist proxy group. Through financial or residency enticements, Iran has facilitated and coerced primarily Shia fighters from Afghanistan and Pakistan to participate in the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown in Syria. Iran-supported Shia militias in Iraq have also committed human rights abuses against primarily Sunni civilians. Iranian forces have directly backed militia operations in Syria with armored vehicles, artillery, and drones.

March 25, 2026 - Since January 2022, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum revealed that 20 Iranian plots of potentially lethal threat to UK citizens had been uncovered. The US intelligence community believes Iran is committed to the deepening of proxy networks within the US, and also to assassinate US government officials it sees as responsible for the death of Iranian military officer Qaseem Soleimani in 2020.

Rather than fostering moderation, ... wars. ... Since its founding in 1979, the Iranian regime has employed terrorism as a key instrument to advance its interests and strike at its domestic and foreign enemies....

March 30, 2023 - Iran was the “leading state sponsor of terrorism,” according to the State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2021. The Ministry of Intelligence and Security facilitated a “wide range of terrorist and other illicit activities” in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Despite Iran’s potential to play a helpful role, the international community has so far ignored its significance in the war on terrorism. As a country that has been pressured by the international community (the US in particular) for a long period, Iran justifies its policies in the Middle East as a response to enduring US threats to pursue regime change. Consequently, the US is viewed in Tehran as a threat to the Islamic government and hence must be countered by every means.

July 7, 2025 - Over the past five years, Iran’s activity in the arena of international terrorism has significantly intensified, spreading across vast geographic regions and incorporating criminal organizations in the execution of terrorist operations.

March 2, 2026 - More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth. President Donald J. Trump is doing what Presidents over the last five decades have refused to do — eliminate the threat once and for all. By destroying Iran’s missiles, annihilating their navy, and ensuring they can never obtain a nuclear weapon, the Trump Administration’s bold and decisive action is protecting American lives and advancing American interests. November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S.

partners, and affiliates to plan attacks globally against Jewish and Israeli individuals, Iranian · dissidents, and Western interests. This includes U.S.

This regime, this Islamic republic is a regime--foments bloodshed, promotes chaos, not just to the West Bank, not just in Gaza, not just, you know, in Iraq and Afghanistan, not just in Lebanon, and I will just make a note about Lebanon. I was there during the second Lebanon war, and I watched those Iranian made and Syrian made rockets come crashing into civilian neighborhoods. We were at the trauma hospital. 600 victims of this kind of state sponsor of terrorism, and afterwards, when the I.D.

June 13, 2025 - Designated a sponsor of terror ... of terrorism,” providing “a range of support, including financial, training, and equipment, to [terrorist] groups around the world – particularly Hezbollah,” according to the ...

Iran's involvement in terrorism has changed considerably during the past decade. From the early 1980s until about 1996, Iran was directly involved in a wide variety of terrorist activities. It provided extensive support to Islamist terrorist groups such as Hezbollah (in Lebanon), Hamas, Palestinian ...

March 5, 2026 - Iran has a long history of mounting covert operations in the United States and other Western countries to eliminate its enemies. In 1980, for instance, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former press attaché at the Iranian Embassy before the revolution ...

December 28, 2020 - Iran’s Islamic government is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and has spent billions of dollars bankrolling terrorist proxies while neglecting the needs of Iranian citizens at home.

March 9, 2022 - Iran began working with terrorist groups immediately after the revolution because it shared their ideology and ambitions, seeking to export its revolution to neighboring countries.

Today, Iran uses terrorism and support for radicals in several distinct ways. Particularly · important for the United States are Tehran’s close relationship with the Lebanese Hizballah; support for anti-Israel Palestinian groups; ties to various factions within Iraq; and loose ... Israel–Hizballah war. In addition, Iranian forces train the movement and provide it with