Title: State-Sponsored Terrorism | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: State-Sponsored Terrorism
State-Sponsored Terrorism
State-sponsored Terrorism
International state-sponsored terrorism
Iran
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Content: a system similar to communism, in which the government controls the businesses and all property is shared by the people. Totalitarian: a form of government that has total control over its citizens, governing even the smallest aspects of their lives. The U.S. government accused Iran of being the "most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2001." Its support took two forms. The first was direct terrorist actions planned and carried out by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (the Iranian intelligence agency) and the Revolutionary Guard Corps (a military force formed after the revolution. The second was providing support for other fundamentalist Islamic organizations. These organizations included Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (see appendix). The Palestinian people had long wanted to found a country of their own, and Iran helped create the idea that any new Palestinian country should be an Islamist state. Hamas and Hezbollah, from Lebanon, conducted terrorist attacks on Israel, a nation founded in 1948 on Palestinian land as a homeland for Jews, who, as a people, were systematically killed by the German military during World War II (1939–45).