Reply #23: Yes they are friendly toward Hezbollah, they aid Hamas as well

[Hippo_Tron]

Hamas is a Sunni organizations so there are different points of view among their members about whether or not they should be accepting aid from Iran. Al Qaeda is an extremely militant Sunni organization who is definitely hostile to Iran and vice versa. Iran, I believe, actually provided us intelligence to help us with Afghanistan in 2001 because it was good for them to get rid of the Taliban and Al Qaeda's safe haven.

I guess your point is correct if you consider aiding groups who use suicide bombers to be the same thing as using suicide bombers. I was noting the difference in that Iran does not, itself, use suicide bombers.

Also I would add that terrorist organization is really just a label that those in power brand on resistance groups that they don't like. I don't sympathize with Hamas or Hezbollah because they're governed by a bunch of 13th century religious nutjobs. But the ANC was also named a "terrorist organization" by the Apartheid government and the rest of the world for quite some time. The Contras in Nicaragua would've been branded a terrorist organization but they were on our side.

Resistance groups or "terrorist organizations" aren't inherently good or bad and arming them isn't inherently good or bad. In the case of Hamas and Hezbollah, I don't think they are a good resistance group by any means but the United States has certainly armed equally reprehensible groups in the past.