Iran
Capital - Tehran
Chief of State - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (since 6/4/89)
Head of Government - President Hojjatoleslam Seyed Mohammad Khatami (since 8/3/97)
Local time when the first plane, Flt 11, crashed into New York's WTC on 9/11/01 - 4:15PM.
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 Ayatollah Khamenei

President Hojjatoleslam Seyed Mohammad Khatami

• Has been helping al Qaeda perform terrorist acts at least since 1998/99.
• Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines (ICCIM)
• Media says Iran will help reconstruct Afghanistan and claimed "Washington had a master plan to attack the land-locked Afghanistan and install a puppet regime there."  12/5/01
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, presently living in Tehran and once head of Hezb-e-Islami group (powerful until most left to join Taliban) requested that the Taliban form an alliance.  11/7/01
• Wants US and Afghanistan-border countries excluded from post-Taliban-government decisions, should the Taliban fall.  11/5/01
• Will not support US military action; will not let US use its airspace
• Relations severed with US after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, removing from power US-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.  Militants supported by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized the US Embassy in Tehran in November and held 50 Americans hostage.  The hostages were held 444 days.  Have remained hostile.
• Presidency of Iran
• The Office of Ayatullah al Udhma Seyyid ali Khamenei-Qom, aka "The Site of the Esteemed Leader"
• Iranian Government sites
• Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Washington D.C.
• Permanent Mission of Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in New York
• The "Pasdaran" or Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is responsible for protecting the Islamic revolution.
  • The IRGC's domestic intelligence service is called VEVAK, led by the Minister of Intelligence and Security, Ali Fallahian.
  • "Qods Force" functions as a foreign special operations and intelligence unit charged with training Islamic fundamentalists and terror groups in facilities in Iran and the Sudan. Qods is led by Ahmad Vahidi.
  • US Intelligence believes there are 10,000 Pasdaran and Qods operatives worldwide. (1/02)
• Shi'ite Muslim country