Country Reports on Terrorism
April 30, 2007
U.S. State Department
State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview
Iran
remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Its Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) and Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) were
directly involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts and continued to
exhort a variety of groups, especially Palestinian groups with leadership cadres
in
Syria and Lebanese
Hizballah, to use terrorism in pursuit of their goals.
Iran maintained a high-profile role in encouraging anti-Israeli terrorist
activity, rhetorically, operationally, and financially. Supreme Leader Khamenei
and President Ahmadi-Nejad praised Palestinian terrorist operations, and
Iran provided Lebanese
Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist groups - notably
HAMAS, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command - with
extensive funding, training, and weapons.
Iran continued to play a destabilizing role in
Iraq , which appeared to be inconsistent with its stated objectives
regarding stability in
Iraq .
Iran provided guidance and training to select Iraqi Shia political
groups, and weapons and training to Shia militant groups to enable
anti-Coalition attacks. Iranian government forces have been responsible for at
least some of the increasing lethality of anti-Coalition attacks by providing
Shia militants with the capability to build IEDs with explosively formed
projectiles similar to those developed by
Iran and Lebanese
Hizballah. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard was linked to armor-piercing
explosives that resulted in the deaths of Coalition Forces. The Revolutionary
Guard, along with Lebanese
Hizballah, implemented training programs for Iraqi militants in the
construction and use of sophisticated IED technology. These individuals then
passed on this training to additional militants in
Iraq .
Iran remained unwilling to bring to justice senior AQ members it detained
in 2003, and it has refused to publicly identify these senior members in its
custody.
Iran has repeatedly resisted numerous calls to transfer custody of its AQ
detainees to their countries of origin or third countries for interrogation or
trial.
Iran also continued to fail to control the activities of some
al-Qaida members who fled to
Iran following the fall of the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan .
Country Reports on Terrorism 2006 (html
format)
U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of
each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those
countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual
report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for
2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.
Background Information: Country Reports on Terrorism
and Patterns of Global Terrorism
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 -- Strategic Assessment
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Africa Overview
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: East Asia and Pacific
Overview
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Europe and Eurasia
Overview
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Middle East and North
Africa Overview
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: South and Central Asia
Overview
Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Western Hemisphere
Overview
Chapter 3 -- State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview
Chapter 4 -- The Global
Challenge of WMD Terrorism
Chapter 5 -- Terrorist Safe
Havens (7120 Report)
Chapter 6 -- Terrorist Organizations
Chapter 7 -- Legislative
Requirements and Key Terms
National Counterterrorism
Center: Annex of Statistical Information
International Conventions and Protocols on Terrorism