Iran's Mehr news agency quoted Major General Gholam Ali Rashid as saying, "We have changed the situation, including the lack of defense agreements with governments and other countries in the past forty years, by joining countries and some governments and building regional powers and religious and popular forces."
But he doesn't actually mean "countries." He means terror groups.
Al Rashid said, "Hajj Qassem Soleimani said in a meeting with the commanders of the armed forces, three months before his martyrdom, 'I have now organized 6 armies outside Iranian territory.'"
Major General Rashid continued, "Six divisions of the popular and ideological armies live outside Iran's borders, and any enemy wants to fight the regime must pass through these six armies."
What are these armies?
Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, "an army in Syria," an Iraqi army called the Popular Mobilization (a collection of militias including terror groups,) and Ansar Allah (the Houthi terrorists) in Yemen.
Iran isn't just aligned with terror groups. It isn't just funding them. It considers terror groups to be an integral part of its army.
Meaning, Iran is a terrorist state in every sense.
But, hey, let's give them a path to their own nuclear weapons.
