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The source of terrorism

IRANIAN ROOTS

by Michael P. Ramirez

Many people today say, “Money is the root of all evil.” It is a misinterpretation of a biblical passage, 1 Timothy 6:10. Apostle Paul wrote a letter to his disciple Timothy and stated, “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”  Money itself isn’t evil unless you worship it. The pursuit of money, when money controls you, the bad behavior that is derivative from money is evil.

Let’s look at the Middle East today. The funding of evil has roots that begin deep in the coffers of the Iranian regime. Iran is the principal supporter of terrorism throughout the region. 

Since its beginnings as a theocratic dictatorship in 1979, Iran’s biggest export after oil has been murder, mayhem, instability, and war through a global network of terrorist proxies and militias. 

The U.S. officially designated Iran a sponsor of terrorism in 1984. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which regularly cultivates, funds, trains, and supplies terrorist organizations abroad, was itself designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States in 2019.  

A list of Iranian-backed terror organizations and militias from a U.S. State