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Copyright © 1999, by the Middle East Data Project, Inc. All rights reserved.
- President Mohammad Khatami, speaking in Tehran on Oct. 10, 1999 to Hezbollah leaders from Lebanon
U.S. counter-terrorism officials, meeting with their G-8 counterparts in Berlin in mid-November, provided extensive new details of Tehran's support for international terrorism that showed that the Islamic Republic has become increasingly active on this front since President Khatami took office more than two years ago.
The Americans were prepared to meet strong resistance from the Europeans, but were pleasantly surprised when counter-terrorism officials from Britain and Germany made similar presentations...
...Specifically, S/CT warned that:
• In recent months Iran has shipped longer-range Katyusha rockets to Hezbollah that will allow Hezbollah to reach targets deep within Israel. The extended range rockets will be able to strike the suburbs of Haifa, some 40 kilometers from Hezbollah's southernmost positions.
• Iran has stepped up financial transfers to Hamas through intermediaries in Jordan, as part of an effort to step up terrorist attacks inside Israel. Jordan has retaliated by cracking down on Hamas officials operating out of Amman, and has seized computer disks and other evidence documenting the Hamas-Iran connection. Israeli authorities have arrested several Hamas bomb-makers in recent months who confessed to having been trained in Iran and financed by the Iranian government, as we have reported in earlier issues. [...]
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