2 weeks ago - Many believe the group promotes ... as the destruction of Israel. Iran has supplied them with substantial amounts of financial, training, weapons (including long range rockets), explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid while persuading Hezbollah to take action ...

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 ...

This includes: ''exporting the Revolution;'' assisting Islamic terrorist organizations and other groups worldwide, especially in the Middle East; attacking Israel and attempting to sabotage the political process; and destabilizing the governments of the more pragmatic and reformist Arab countries. The creation of a free and democratic Iraq and Afghanistan, and the pursuit of peace and stability between Israelis and Palestinians through democratic means, are efforts that contradict the Islamist aspirations of the Iranian regime. In response, Iran has acted to prevent the attainment of these policies by supporting terrorist organizations and pursuing policies that act against U.S.

March 2, 2026 - For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has killed and maimed American citizens and

March 5, 2025 - In 2020, Iran provided support to Hamas and other designated Palestinian terrorist groups, including Palestine Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

March 5, 2025 - These Palestinian terrorist groups ... in the Sinai Peninsula. The Iranian government maintains a robust offensive cyber program and has sponsored cyber attacks against foreign ......

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

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.

February 5, 2024 - Throughout its tumultuous history, Iran has strategically employed terrorist groups as proxies in its foreign policy, using these groups to wield influence across the Middle East and beyond.

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.

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.

May 8, 2026 - 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 ...

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 27, 2026 - 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.

November 13, 2018 - The beneficiaries of this misbegotten largesse range from Hezbollah in Lebanon, to Hamas in Gaza, to violent rejectionist groups in the West Bank, to the Houthis in Yemen, to hostile militias in Iraq and Syria. Let me give you some numbers. This may sound hard to believe, but Iran provides Hezbollah alone some $700 million a year. It gives another $100 million to various Palestinian terrorist groups. When you throw in the money provided to other terrorists, the total comes close to one billion dollars. Let’s pause to consider that, because it bears repeating: The Iranian regime spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to support terrorism.

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.

This sentiment comes from a desire to prove to the Iranian population at large that its government is responding, anger within key elite audiences (particularly the IRGC) and a sense of humiliation, and a strong belief in revenge. So as long as Israel and other states use low-level attacks on Iran and maintain a high degree of economic and political pressure, Iran is likely to attempt terrorist attacks as a response.

July 7, 2025 - This section provides an in-depth analysis of several significant Iranian terrorist attempts in recent years, highlighting the operational methods characteristic of Iran’s actions as demonstrated by these incidents...

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

March 9, 2022 - Tehran’s support for a range of militant groups continues, with Iranian leaders seeing them as a form of power projection and a way to undermine enemies as well as a way to help like-minded groups become stronger.