Posted on 06/19/2015 5:37:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Iran’s support for international terrorist groups remained undiminished last year and even expanded in some respects, the Obama administration said Friday, less than two weeks before the deadline for completing a nuclear deal that could provide Tehran with billions of dollars in relief from economic sanctions.
The assessment offered a worrying sign of even worse terror-related violence to come after a year in which extremists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia committed 35 percent more terrorist acts, killed nearly twice as many people and almost tripled the number of kidnappings worldwide. Statistics released by the State Department on Friday also pointed to a tenfold surge in the most lethal kinds of attacks. […]
Tehran increased its assistance to Shiite militias fighting in Iraq and continued its long-standing military, intelligence and financial aid to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Syrian President Bashar Assad’s embattled government and Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. While the 388-page study said Iran has lived up to interim nuclear deals with world powers thus far, it gave no prediction about how an Iran flush with cash from a final agreement would behave. …
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It wont affect negotiations nor should it, says Harf.
[and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]
thanks Olog-hai for both:
‘The UN Has Never Been Honest’ (Naftali Bennett)
INN | 6/19/2015, 11:21 AM | Tova Dvorin
Posted on 06/20/2015 7:30:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3302245/posts
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