Anyone who has read anything about international Islamic (especially Sunni-centered) terrorism over the past decade, from Bergen, to Bodansky to Emerson to Pipes, would have already realized the enormous role played by Iran (in association with The Sudan) as a facilitator for Bin Laden and Zawahiri's diabolical plans.
Stretching back to Islamic Jihad's devastating attacks on the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, these cretins have been attempting to destabilize unfavorable governments and bolster those that they consider to be hospitable to their overall aims.
The Iranian dictatorship falls under that rubric pretty nicely, don't you think?
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