If Iran sponsored al Qaeda ever, how is it they're enemies with Saudi Arabia where 3/4 of the 9/11 hijackers came from ?
SA is not a State sponsor of terrorism. Iran is.
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Iran and state-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia
Alleged Al-Qaeda ties[edit]
Al-Qaeda leaders regard
Shia Muslims as
heretics and have attacked their mosques and gatherings.
[55] In Iraq it considers Shi'i civilians to be legitimate targets for acts of violence.
[56] The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by Iran and many other countries, and Iran has a hostile relationship with the group.
[57] However, allegedly
Al-Qaeda and Iran formed an alliance during the 1990s in which Hezbollah trained al Qaeda operatives.
[58] Iran detained hundreds of al Qaeda operatives that entered the country following the
2001 invasion of Afghanistan; even though "the Iranian government has held most of them under house arrest, limited their freedom of movement, and closely monitored their activities," U.S. officials have expressed concerns that Iran has not fully accounted for their whereabouts, culminating in accusations of Iranian complicity in the 2003
Riyadh compound bombings.
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1998 United States embassy bombings[edit]
On November 8, 2011, Judge John D. Bates ruled in federal court that Iran was liable for the
1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. In his 45-page decision, Judge Bates wrote that "Prior to their meetings with Iranian officials and agents Bin Laden and al Qaeda did not possess the technical expertise required to carry out the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam."
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USS Cole bombing[edit]
In March 2015, U.S. federal judge Rudolph Contreras found both Iran and Sudan complicit in the
2000 bombing of the USS Cole by al Qaeda, stating that "Iran was directly involved in establishing Al-Qaeda's Yemen network and supported training and logistics for Al-Qaeda in the Gulf region" through Hezbollah. Two previous federal judges had ruled that Sudan was liable for its role in the attack, but Contreras's "ruling is the first to find Iran partly responsible for the incident."
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September 11[edit]
Main article:
Responsibility for the September 11 attacks
The U.S. indictment of bin Laden filed in 1998 stated that al-Qaeda "forged alliances ... with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies."
[58] On May 31, 2001,
Steven Emerson and
Daniel Pipes wrote in
The Wall Street Journal that "Officials of the Iranian government helped arrange advanced weapons and explosives training for Al-Qaeda personnel in
Lebanon where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings."
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The
9/11 Commission Report stated that 8 to 10 of the hijackers on
9/11 previously passed through Iran and their travel was facilitated by Iranian border guards.
[58][63] The report also found "circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbollah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle hijackers into Iran in November 2000."
[63] After the commission called for "further investigation" into a possible Iranian role in the attacks, President
George W. Bush demanded that Iran sever its ties with al-Qaeda, while saying that in his view, "There was no direct connection between Iran and the attacks of September 11."
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Judge
George B. Daniels ruled in a federal district court in Manhattan that Iran bears legal responsibility for providing "material support" to the 9/11 plotters and hijackers in
Havlish, et al. v. Osama bin Laden, Iran, et al.[65][66] Included in Judge Daniels' findings was that Iran "used front companies to obtain a Boeing 757-767-777 flight simulator for training the terrorists",
Ramzi bin al-Shibh traveled to Iran in January 2001, and an Iranian government memorandum from May 14, 2001 demonstrates Iranian culpability in planning the attacks.
[65] Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service testified that Iranian officials had "foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks."
[67] By contrast, the 9/11 Commission "found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack. At the time of their travel through Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the specific details of their future operation." In addition, both bin al-Shibh and
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed denied "any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah" and "any other reason for the hijackers' travel to Iran" besides "taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi passports."
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