Fighting Terror on the Battlefield of Banking

August 3, 2020

The United States government rightly labels Iran as the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism. Its clerical regime – or the Velayet e-Faqih (Guardianship of Islamic Jurist) – exercises direct or indirect control over most of the country's largest financial and commercial institutions to allegedly train, finance and equip a global network of proxy forces in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Latin America.

During the time of the last shah, Iran's historical claims over Bahraini sovereignty ended in 1971 at the United Nations, supported by a poll taken of the Bahraini population voicing overwhelming support toward independence.

Nonetheless, Bahrain continues to be a target of Iran's efforts to expand its sphere of influence and hegemony since the revolution. More ominously, the Iranian regime has consistently used all the tools of its national power to destabilize our nation, which though territorially small, serves as a critical linchpin in the security architecture of the Middle East.

Read the full article from U.S. News.