Mattis: ” Iran is world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism”

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US Defense Secretary James Mattis called Iran "the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world" in his first comments on the country Saturday, a day after the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions over an Iranian ballistic missile test.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis called Iran “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world” in his first comments on the country Saturday, a day after the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions over an Iranian ballistic missile test.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis called Iran “the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world” in his first comments on the country Saturday, a day after the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions over an Iranian ballistic missile test.

Iran and the United States have engaged in tit-for-tat exchanges since US President Donald Trump signed an executive order January 27 banning nationals temporarily from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States. Iran was among those countries.

US District Judge James Robart temporarily stopped Trump’s order Friday night, and the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday it has suspended all actions implementing the order.

Eshaq Jahangiri, Iran’s first vice president, dismissed the remarks from Mattis as “useless claims,” saying that Iran had been instrumental in the fight against ISIS, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, or IRNA.
“The Iranian government and nation do not care in the least for the worn-out and threadbare remarks made by the American officials,” Jahangiri said.

Iran fired a ballistic missile two days after Trump’s travel ban was announced and vowed to implement “reciprocal measures.”
Mattis said Iran’s “misconduct and misbehavior” would have to be addressed.
“We have a responsibility with the rest of the nations to be absolutely clear with Iran in this regard. It does no good to ignore it. It does no good to dismiss it,” Mattis said in Tokyo, where he met with his Japanese counterpart to discuss security issues.
But he said the recent tensions with Iran did not warrant an increase in the number of US forces in the Middle East.
“We always have the capability to do so, but at this time I don’t think it’s necessary,” he said.
Iran calls threats ‘futile,’ warns of ‘legal restrictions’

As Mattis made his comments Saturday, Iran’s air force was conducting military drills, including missile systems, radar and electronic warfare command and control exercises, in the northern Semnan province, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

These drills are aimed at “showing strength, intelligence and readiness for all-round defense against any threat” and are being done “in contempt of sanctions and threats,” the report said.

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force spoke Saturday on drill sidelines.
“I’d say with confidence that foreign threats against the Islamic Establishment (of Iran) are futile,” said Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, quoted by the Tasnim News Agency.

He said US outcry over Iranian missile tests is a pretext for expressing hostility toward Iran.

“Should the enemy make a mistake, our roaring missiles will rain down on them,” Hajizadeh said.
On Friday, the US Treasury Department said it was applying sanctions on 25 individuals and companies connected to Iran’s ballistic missile program and those providing support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. That included three separate networks linked to supporting the missile program, which the United States opposes.

Trump tweeted Friday that Iran was “playing with fire” and he would not be as “kind” to Tehran as former President Barack Obama.

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday it too would ensure “legal restrictions” were imposed on the “American individuals and companies which have a role in aiding extremist and terrorist groups or contribute to the suppression and murder of the defenseless people in the region,” IRNA reported.

The two countries have exchanged explosive language, with the Trump administration putting Iran “on notice” before applying new sanctions and Tehran criticizing what it called the US leader’s “baseless ranting.”
Nuclear deal’s future

The sudden escalation of US-Iranian tensions has raised concerns about the future of the nuclear accord with Iran, which put stringent limits on the country’s nuclear program. It allowed sanctions to be eased and business with Iran to recommence.

Trump has been a longtime critic of the accord, which was brokered after two years of talks with the five members of the UN Security Council and Germany in 2015.

Nasser Hadian, a professor of international relations at Tehran University, told CNN this week it was unlikely the Trump administration would tear up the agreement.

Abandoning the accord “would serve hard-line interests in Iran,” he said.
CNN

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68 responses to “Mattis: ” Iran is world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism””

  1. I am surprised it took the US so long to discover that .
    Ask the Arabs in Ahwaz and the Lebanese in Beirut and Mt Lebanon they would have told you long time ago that “Iran is world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism” both directly and thru its proxies

    1. You’re still pretending to be Lebanese Kharazna?

      1. I thought Ya Libnan kicked you out because . because you are so childish.Grow up to get some respect. You seem to know so little about Iran to participate in a serious discussion.

        1. I thought Ya Libnan kicked you out because.. euh… because you are so childish.Grow up to get some respect. You seem to know so little about Iran to participate in serial faking..err.. discussion.

        2. Stop the clocks; did you say ‘childish’ and talk about ‘respect’? Do you want me to translate your last two “Lebanese” (note the quotation marks) comments? You know, where you write back to back dumb insults in the likes of: donkey, son of donkey, son of a bitch, eat shit, I will throw you in the garbage, etc.

          By the way, you still haven’t answered my questions in regards to those comments: 1) who did you ask to write such idiocy because that is not how Lebanese is written/spoken, 2) why don’t you write in Arabic alphabet, 3) why did you say latin alphabet Lebanese was recommend to you by your professor in the 50s when it’s a modern phenomenon stated with internet chatting. The previous questions are of course rhetorical because you’re not Lebanese; you just pretend to be.

          What do you know about Iran? Other than your usual, daily propagandist verbal diarrhea that is? Iran may very well as bad as others but I don’t see you criticize the financier of al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, al-This, al-That, ISIS/ISIL: Saudi Arabia. You must love some Wahhabi.

          1. I think it’s Doron..he impersonated me once..

          2. It’s definitely someone who posted/posts here.

          3. i was “impersonating” You, not doron. What is Your persona name? I’m sorry i was impersonating

          4. grow up

          5. What’s the underlying message of your comment? To not call you out/expose you?

          6. To show paternalism & patience as a victim.

        3. Can you translate the above sentence Arzna?

      2. This is very simple to address; Ask him if he can translate the following to English:
        3ammado el sabe be mayroun 3ala mo5o ta7et el tuute w ahlo feeto la jouweet el beyt ta y3aydo w yeeklo baskot ma3 raa7a w tatle.
        If he can translate the above then he is Lebanese he he 😉

        1. baskot ma3 raa7a bmisk is my favorite desert . Whenever I travel to Turkey i always bring back some of their rahat lukum because they have such a great variety but somehow I still prefer the Lebanese Rahat El Halkum “راحه الحلقوم” bilmisk

          1. He asked to translate Kharazna; not tell your Dönmeh escapades in Turkey.

          2. Lebanese Rahat El Halkum “راحه الحلقوم” bilmisk:
            Turkish Delights. ArzoTurko

        2. He asks for help;)))

        3. He’ll go ask someone to translate and get back to you in few days. So far, these are his comments in ‘Lebanese’:

          Ya ibn el sharmoutah a sarsour ya manyouk 7il 3an Tizi w illa bid3asak bissirmayeh . Int el 7mar w ibn 7mar w min 3ailet 7meer . shou b3d beddek illek la tekul khara w t7il 3an tizi

          In 7mar ma fhimit shou ana katabt. Koul khara wma tiktub shi 3an al ana biktbu

          Mostly bin Libnen

          Besides, what kind of ‘Lebanese’ never thinks much of the Lebanese language and alphabet. Quoting him: Besides I never thought much of the Lebanese language and alphabet .

          Or says that writing Lebanese in Latin alphabet was introduced in the 50s when it’s a new phenomena that started with internet chatting. Quoting him: We used to make fun of Akl when he proposed it in our classroom in the fifties.

          1. Writing in Latin alphabet makes sense 😉 After all it was our ancestors the Phoenicians who invented it. It used to be an Abjad right to left writing. The names of the letters today still reflect their origin Alep (dawajen) Bet (Beyt) Gemmil (jamal) Dalet (Door) etc.

          2. B’oul Libnen bas bektub Libnan ;))

          3. Absolutely. I am saying that Akl’s system never picked up; it was rather, proposed/tested. The whole thing gathered momentum with internet chatting/writing.

          4. what is it Akl’s system?

          5. Not really a system but a proposition by Said Akl: He was also an advocate of Lebanese identity and nationalism and the Lebanese language, designing a Latin-based “Lebanese alphabet” made up of 36 letters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Akl

          6. ???????????????? (toda) thank You in Phoenician

          7. Exactly. Ottoman Turkish script was replaced by the Latin-based new Ataturk Turkish alphabet. Its use became compulsory in all public communications in 1929. The change was formalized by the Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, passed on November 1,1928, and effective on January 1,1929.
            The Dönmeh Khazar Jews

          8. but what are You want to say?

          9. You Are not supporting Phoenician, Aramaic font on Your PC, idiot (please excuse me)
            Am I wrong? (Cnan-Berut) ????????????????-????????????????

          10. Dönmeh Khazar.
            “Zionist militant Zeév Jabotinsky, From “We and Turkey” in
            Di Tribune, November 30, 1915

            “We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Muslim regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan, and Syria will fall to us.”

            David Ben-Gurion, From “Ben-Gurion, A Biography” by Michael Ben-Zohar, May 1948

            “It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly mass movement among them…Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking Iraq up into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon…Syria will fall apart.”

          11. Fool, almost all Orabic states are failed without Israel help. Not failed Orabic states are only Kuwait, Qatar and seven states of the United Orab Emirates: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah, Umm al-Quwain, Fujairah and Sharjah. This successful, high-grade, quiet countries. At the heart of each of them – one tribe. Thus and the legitimacy of the state, and the legitimacy of power. Israel (12 tribes) is in your antisemitic dream

  2. Yet Al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, al-This, al-That, ISIS, ISIL are funded by Saudi Arabia. Yet, the alleged 9/11 hijackers came from KSA. Yet, yet, yet.

    Let’s drop the non-sensical rhetoric and say it the way it is:

    1) we want what you have
    2) we will make up lies to demonize you
    3) we will then disregard international laws and attack you
    4) fight back if you can

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      1. Iran is doing that now
      2. Iran is doing that now
      3. Iran is doing that now
      4. all the above.

      1. 1 to 4: how?

        1. Rudy1947 Avatar

          1….2….3….4. See, very simple. We can do twenty, but then you run out of digits.

          1. How does that answer the question I asked you?

          2. Rudy1947 Avatar

            I did. 1 to 4.

          3. What you did is your usual modus operandi: divert to dilute the topic and keep it going for as long as you can before ending it with LOLs or ZZZs. I leave you to it.

          4. Rudy1947 Avatar

            That was your question, 1 to 4. 1…2….3…4. very simple. Perhaps you had a different question in mind, but didn’t ask.

          5. Nice family photo, which one are you?

          6. Rudy1947 Avatar

            None, but i picture you as the D.

          7. 70 but argue like 7 – (facepalm).

          8. Rudy1947 Avatar

            69 actually and would you like to learn to count to five?

          9. lol

  3. Incorrect; it takes second place. The ‘distinction’of being number one goes to ….(drumroll) putlerstan! Iran is its client though. Once Trumpkov realises that, his love affair with fuehrer putler might come to an end.

    1. (drumroll) putlerstan! Trumpkov fuehrer putler

      1. ”Iran is world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism”
        and Hind aka HebAlba, canadian parasite is biggest sponsor of blackmail and sabotage of civilization

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          1. Please check Your intentions

    2. Njordheim Avatar

      Ukrainian thug Stephan Bandera is a War Criminal. You glorifying this Nazi as god in Western Ukraine! UkrNaZZi Bandera murdered 100.000 Polish Women and Children in Galicia and provided weapons to ISIS in Syria. Ukraine under Prokyshenko is a disaster and you trolls are doing good job exposing this evil by lying profusely every days in western media!

      1. brainwashing

        1. Blocked! Enough spammers here already.

          1. You are spammer and are lying really

          2. block yourself already, fool

        2. Njordheim Avatar

          The Air Force command of Ukraine’s armed forces acknowledged to Reuters that the American Drones called Ravens supplied by the United States had a fundamental drawback: Russia and the separatist forces it supports can intercept and jam their video feeds and data. *(Ouch)!

          1. Are You Russia politics fan?

          2. Njordheim Avatar

            I am a common sense fan, acknowledging that no Country is perfect but as it appears the goverment is more in tune withe its people in Russia then is in Canada or USA where is impossible to overstate the staggering amount of harm, damage and injury inflicted on the proud nation by the increasing number of radical left wing extremists euphemistically referred to as the Progressives, who have finally and fatally infected, compromised and consumed the soul of a once proud Democratic Party and are leading the country on an inexorable descent to national suicide.

            http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-american-dream-to-the-american-nightmare#

            The above article clarify ho the Liberals have laid waste to countless cities, states, communities and public school systems, which have so long been trapped under their power and control and have wrecked or destroyed innumerable lives in the process. For anyone willing to simply open their eyes and minds to the truth, the evidence of their perfidy is overwhelming and undeniable.

          3. +more in tune withe its people+ Where is Navalny now, are You know?

          4. Njordheim Avatar

            No one supports that clown. Only Fake Liberal media is representing him as political contender, which he is NOT. Everyone who understands politics knows that Putin is the best thing that happened to Russia and to Conservative, healthy part of the world.

          5. Navalny is not perfect. But it has a number of qualities. I’m not talking about the political views today. First, he sets great idea, especially text. These ideally placed accents, wonderful metaphor, subtle humor and self-irony, this brevity, Pruflink and very persistent correctness. In general, a sample of a great journalistic style, so we must learn to work with the word. Then, of course, focus and fearlessness is very captivating. And most importantly – the ability to work on the areas in the new technologies of the 21st century. I think now of politicians anybody in the world so clearly not able to work, creating projects and teams. I remember being surprised that almost a quarter of its budget homemade Moscow during the election campaign, he regretted, but the understanding of the inevitability of spending on its independent … sociology. No, you understand, right? His sociology. Monitor the effectiveness of the campaign. This self-learning machine amazing strength. Now I saw the link has gone, voted:

            In short: man uses Internet technology to advance to collect all the required signatures (and not when the total race with his tongue hanging). Zhirinovsky will start six months later only to wait for a call from allowing Volodin. And in bulk all the staffs working for a long time. The site still clearly and instantly. Nothing more, strict design, large letters. Short, but crystal clear explanation of what is being done, and why you need exactly and precisely in this way. Please enter the name, city. The handset – it immediately falls SMS confirmation. E-mail – also confirmed. He pressed the button – left voice. He pressed the button – shared in social networks. Not all social networks, not twenty buttons – only the four most effective. When it’s 2018, and the floors will stagger wrinkled old woman with signature sheets for Zyuganov, by the time I probably already called from bulk to definitively confirm. Maybe even write down the conversation that then there was no provocation like “I did not vote, I have written.” Or will approach with a sheet, I put a signature. Optimization, prudence, order

  4. To Secretary Mattis, a message to President Trump.
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.politics.misc/j0KehzOMIa0

  5. Iran agreed to open its airspace for Russian Military Space Forces http://lenta.ru/news/2017/02/11/shahmani/

    1. Sorry we don’t read Russi.

      11 февраля 2017
      Иран решил открыть воздушное пространство для российских ВКС
      https://lenta.ru/news/2017/02/11/shahmani/

      1. i translated title, if You are interesting in reading article You can translate with translator.
        Or start to learn Russian Imperial

  6. Swedish Prime Minister visited Iran and held talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. During the visit, several agreements on bilateral cooperation was signed http://newsru.co.il/mideast/11feb2017/loven8029.html

  7. Swedish Prime Minister signed an agreement on development of cooperation with Iran http://newsru.co.il/mideast/11feb2017/loven8029.html

  8. Niemals Avatar

    If Mattis claims that ”Iran is world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism”, how he will explain that a 42-year-old Iraqi believed to be an “Islamic State” supporter, is suspected of having committed attacks on the high-speed rail line between Nuremberg and Munich in October and in Berlin in December, Bavarian State Criminal Police Office said Wednesday.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/15e9f13adcfea9ad49b991988958bf0fa5e272b4b36308fa8acd7adfdc57e017.jpg
    Austria’s Kronen Zeitung reported that elite police raided the 42-year-old’s apartment in Vienna on Monday.

    Police found wire pulled across a stretch of train tracks in Bavaria, national media reported. A conductor mistook the sound of the incident for a shorted circuit.

    German media reported on Sunday that authorities in the state of Bavaria were investigating a possible attempted terror attack on a high-speed train. The incident, according to the Bild daily, involved a steel wire being pulled across the tracks.

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