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Iran is zeer weer lekker in het conflict aan het mengen. Hamas bewapend zich weer en Israël kan weer een mortier- en raketregen verwachten op burgerdoelen. Vervolgens valt Israël de Gazastrook weer binnen en kunnen we dit topic naar deel 100 helpen.
Zeer kwalijke zaak, maar weer tekenend voor het beleid van Hamas, het bewapenen van een terroristische organisatie. Tijd om Iran eens aan te pakken.
Iran: Breakdown of Financial Backing for Terrorist Groups
The Islamic Republic of Iran is widely recognized as the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, providing funds, training and weapons to terrorist groups including Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC). [1] Iran provides similar assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan [2] and to both Shia and Sunni groups in Iraq. [3] Iran has said it will share its nuclear know-how with Islamic countries or groups as it pursues nuclear technology in defiance of the U.N. Security Council .
It funds terrorist groups in the following manner:
* Hamas: $20 million to $30 million annually. [4] Iran pledged an additional $50 million to the Palestinians' Hamas-led government [5] and lent its expertise as the group prepared to take over the Gaza Strip. [6] Hamas members receive intensive training in Iran and from Hezbollah in Lebanon. [7] [8] Hamas operates in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza; [9]
* Hezbollah: $100 million [10] to $200 million [11] annually, plus a reported $300 million after the Hezbollah-Israel war in the summer of 2006. [12] In violation of United Nations Resolution 1701, [13] Iran has re-supplied the Shia terror group with Katyusha rockets, surface-to-air rockets and anti-tank weapons. [14] Hezbollah uses Lebanon as its base;
* Iraq insurgents: $3 million monthly. Insurgents regularly receive intensive training in Iran. [15] Iran provides explosively formed penetrators (EFP). [16] Weapons captured from both Shia and Sunni groups bear markings of Iranian manufacture as recently as 2006; [17]
* Palestinian Islamic Jihad: $2 million a year. [18] PIJ operates in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza;
* Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command: No direct funding, but the terrorist organization runs Iranian training camps in Syria and Lebanon. [19] PFLP-GC operates in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; [20]
* Taliban: Rocket-propelled grenades, C-4 explosives, 107mm mortars, small arms [21] [22] and surface-to-air missiles. [23]
Footnotes
[1] Country Reports on Terrorism, Chapter 6- State Sponsors of Terror Overview-Iran," U.S. Department of State Web site, April 28, 2006,
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm[2] Harding, Thomas, "Taliban using missiles from Iran to target British troops," The Daily Telegraph (London), May 22, 2007
[3] Rubin, Alissa J., "U.S. Suspects That Iran Aids Both Sunni and Shiite Militias," The New York TImes, A12, April 12, 2007
[4] Hamas," Council on Foreign Relations Web site,
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/, accessed July 2, 2007
[5] "Iran pledges $50m Palestinian aid," BBC News, April 16, 2006,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4914334.stm [6] Rabinovich, Abraham, "Hamas digs in for war in Gaza," The Australian, March 16, 2007
[7] Boudreaux, Richard, "Israeli official says Iran training Hamas; The militant group denies the intelligence chief's assertion, the first such government claim echoing rumors," The Los Angeles Times, A7, March 6, 2007
[8] Levitt, Matthew A., "Iranian State Sponsorship of Terror: Threatening U.S. Security, Global Stability, and Regional Peace," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Feb. 16, 2005,
www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/Iran-Testimony-2-16-05.pdf, pg. 6
[9] Hamas," Council on Foreign Relations Web site,
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/, accessed Feb. 2, 2007
[10] Aversa, Jeannine, "Levey: Iran 'central banker of terror'," Associated Press via Iran Focus, Aug. 28, 2006
[11] Wilson, Scott, "Lebanese Wary of a Rising Hezbollah," The Washington Post, Dec. 20, 2004, A17,
http://www.washingtonpost(...)336-2004Dec19_2.html[12] Ghattas, Kim, "Regional powers fight over Lebanon," BBCNews, April 27, 2007,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6595909.stm[13] UN Security Council Resolution No. 1701, Section 15,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4785963.stm[14] Hughes, Robin, "Iran Replenishes Hizbullah's Arms Inventory," Jane's Defence Weekly, Jan.3, 2007
[15] Partlow, Joshua, "U.S.: Iran, Hezbollah Training Iraqi Militants," The Washington Post, July 2, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost(...)74.html?hpid=topnews[16] Gordon, Michael R.; Shane, Scott, "Behind U.S. Pressure on Iran, Long-Held Worry Over a Deadly Device in Iraq," The New York Times, March 27, 2007
[17] Rubin, Alissa J., "U.S. Suspects That Iran Aids Both Sunni and Shiite Militias," The New York TImes, A12, April 12, 2007
[18] Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)," Terrorism Knowledge Base Web site,
http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=82, accessed Feb. 2, 2007
[19] Levitt, Matthew A., "Iranian State Sponsorship of Terror: Threatening U.S. Security, Global Stability, and Regional Peace," The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Feb. 16, 2005,
www.washingtoninstitute.org/html/pdf/Iran-Testimony-2-16-05.pdf, pg. 5
[20] "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine," Terrorism Knowledge Base Web site, accessed Feb. 8, 2007,
http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=85[21] Wright, Robin, "Iranian Flow Of Weapons Increasing, Officials Say; Arms Shipments Tracked To Iraqi, Afghan Groups," The Washington Post, June 3, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost(...)AR2007060201020.html[22] Blair, Tony, "What I've learned," The Economist, May 31, 2007,
http://www.economist.com/(...)cfm?story_id=9257593[23] Harding, Thomas, "Taliban 'using missiles from Iran to target British troops," The Daily Telegraph, May 22, 2007