MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In Thursday's report, the US State Department said that Iran's "sponsorship" of terrorism was a "significant threat" to the stability of Lebanon and the broader region. According to the report, in recent years, Iran's sponsorship of terrorism has become particularly active, and was being carried out through the Quds Force, a special unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, intelligence services and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement.
"Under the conditions that most of the people of the world and some American and western politicians regard the biggest supporters of terrorism if not the US government itself but at least its close allies, as the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. This recent annual report on terrorism has ridiculed the blatant facts and realities and has become the best document for lack of credibility of the US Department of State by justifying the false accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (alleged) support for terrorism," Ansari was quoted by the FARS News Agency as saying.
The US-Iranian relations have been strained for decades, following the triumph of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when the US-backed Iranian shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was ousted, and Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became the nation's leader.
