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U.S. Department of State: â€œIran's sponsorship of terrorism sees marked resurgenceâ€

31 May 2013 08:23 (UTC +04:00)

"The year 2012 was notable in demonstrating a marked resurgence of Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism," via Tehran's elite al Quds force, its intelligence ministry, and Hezbollah, the report said. "Iran and Hezbollah's terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s."

"Iran and Hezbollah's terrorist activity has reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s, with attacks plotted in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa," it said. Those included an attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed six, as well as thwarted strikes in India, Thailand, Georgia and Kenya.

"Both Iran and Hezbollah are providing a broad range of critical support to the Assad regime, as it continues its brutal crackdown against the Syrian people," the State Department report said.

Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria remain on that blacklist.