Iran supports terrorism overseas experience "significant recovery" in 2012, reaching 20 years have never seen the level of last Thursday accused the U.S. State Department in its annual report on trends in political violence.
The report lists a series of actual and planned attacks in Europe and Asia, Iran's Hezbollah allies, including the July 2012 bombing in Bulgaria, killing five Israeli citizens and a Bulgarian, injured 32 people.
"2012 is the National Iranian support for terrorism showed significant recovery is remarkable," through Tehran's elite Al-Quds force, its Ministry of Intelligence and Hezbollah, the report said. "Iran and Hezbollah's terrorist activities have been reached since the 1990s rhythm invisible."
Iran did not immediately respond to requests for comment at the United Nations mission.
Last July, the Iranian ambassador to the UN denied that his country's participation in Bulgaria bombing, which he accused Israel of conduct. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee said: "We have never, and will not, engage in such a despicable attempt ...... innocent people."
The report's release coincided U.S. and European officials and intelligence agencies that Iran and Hezbollah have stepped up their besieged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad government's military backing.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday publicly committed group Assad Syrian rebels, like Damascus government has been accused of abusing a two-year civil war victory.
U.S. State Department report says: "Iran and Hezbollah are providing a wide range of critical support the Assad regime, which continues the brutal repression of the Syrian people,."
The report covers the events in 2012, does not include such events as the Boston Marathon in the United States last week's brutal explosion or killing of a British soldier in the streets of London.
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U.S. President Barack Obama announced last week that he moved to the United States from a "global war on terror unlimited" as a response to September 11, 2001 attacks on his predecessor started. While continuing to target militants, he said he would limit foreign deadly drone strikes, and seek again close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Overall, the State Department's "2012 National Report Terrorism" depicts a bittersweet efforts to combat violent extremism.
It says, "base" organization in Pakistan Caucus "continues to weaken," the loss of drive and leadership group branches, become more independent, "set their own goals, and specify their goals."
"Base" organization's two most dangerous franchise, headquartered in Yemen "base" organization in the Arabian Peninsula and al-Shabaab in Somalia, "suffered a major setback," it said.
But at the same time, set up a complex picture of the "Arab Spring" unrest in the revolutionary movement, the report said. Proliferation of weapons stockpiles fall of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Mali "terrorists new opportunities, as well as after the coup," it said.
Reports that "base" Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), seeking to establish a long-term presence in Syria, "the al-Nusrah's Front" against Assad's anti-government guerrilla groups, the U.S. government has designated a terrorist organization pseudonym .
Iraq was in 2012, 10 world's most deadly attack three sites, it says that the strike may determine the behavior of 97% was attributed to AQI.
Although last year in 85 countries and regions, terrorist attacks, 55 percent of attacks and 62 percent of these deaths occur in just three countries: Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. State Department said.
Reported that there were 6,771 terrorist attacks in 2012, killing 11,098 people died. More than 1,280 people have been kidnapped or taken hostage.
Because changes in methodology, figures are not directly comparable to previous years, it said.
 



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