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US Official Says Iran is 'Central Banker of Terror'
2006-08-29
A U.S. anti-terrorism official says Iran is providing money to finance terrorism carried out by the militant group Hezbollah - calling the country quote - "the central banker of terror". In an interview with the Associated Press Monday, Stuart Levey said Iran is a country that has terrorism as part of its budget.

Levey - the U.S. Under-Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism - spoke as Iran faces a Thursday, August 31 U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions. Separately, the United States confirmed it will issue a visa to former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who has been invited to speak next month at a multi-faith seminar in Washington. Khatami, considered a moderate among Iranian religious leaders, had advocated dialogue with the U.S. during his term in office, which ended last year.
Posted by:Fred

#5  US Official Says Iran is 'Central Banker of Terror'

And now it's time to pay the piper.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-29 16:58  

#4  Here come the 419 scams from Iran...
Posted by: Jackal   2006-08-29 09:30  

#3  Not because it's a secret (or not), but preparing the ground to announce that any banks that deal with Iran will be frozen out of the US banking system, like was done to North Korea and post-Hamas Palestinian Authority. We already don't deal with them directly, if I recall correctly, but the next step would make it difficult (though not impossible) for them to find any banks that would so much as allow themselves to be used to transfer funds.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-29 07:30  

#2  DEFENSETECH.org and other Net blogs > US slowly but steadily accumulating undeniable evidencias that Iran is heavily involved in the Iraqi insurgency, what used to be labeled/called
"foreign intervention/-ism]!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-08-29 02:29  

#1  OOOH! OOOH! That's as big a secret as Armitage outing Plame!!
Posted by: anymouse   2006-08-29 00:38  

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