Iran+Terrorism

Brent S. Period 3
 * __Iran and It's Involvement with State Sponsored Terrorism__**

__Background__ In recent years, a spike of terrorism has exploded all over the world. Questions have been raised as to where these terrorist groups have been receiving the funds for their violent actions. State sponsored terrorism began during the Cold War when the United States and Russia threatened each other with terrorist activity. The problem was that countries were funding certain terrorist cells to do dirty work and smuggle resources. Many nations have been accused of sponsoring terrorist cells. The recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fueled by conflicts of nations sponsoring terrorism. State-sponsored terrorism has been an important issue, with several committees and summits occuring for the sole sake of conjuring solutions to squash out terrorism.

__United Nations Involvement__ The world as a whole has taken a keen intrest in state sponsored terrorism because it involves a direct conflict with peacekeeping efforts and the way countries can function. The UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism was created in 1999 and was signed by several countries and enforces the articles with criminal punishment. A UN Counterterrorism Committee was created to deal with specific cases of state sponsored terrorism and deal with punishment for violating the terms of the UNCSFT (UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism). Infractions of these rules has resulted in punishment such as a higher prescence of UN officials and increased security.

__Country Policy and Involvement__ Iran has been accused of dabbling in state sponsored terrorism, however, as the delegate from this fine nation, I would like to decline all accusations of such actions. We have had just as many terrorist attacks directly on our government and country as other nations in the Middle East. Because of these accusations, we have been working hard to establish our position as a reckoning force working against the apostrophe that is state sponsored terrorism. Iran is open to working with other nations to stop this atrocious act.

__Solutions__ Iran has been discussing the current problem of SST and the possible solutions we can devise for it. We have approved a solution that Iran believes is excellent in dealing with and solving the problem of state-sponsored terrorism. Iran believes that countries first need to look at their own issues on SST and analyze what they have done in the past that could be used against them. Iran believes that it is better to look at what your country has done before you go and accuse another country, with no hard evidence against them of sponsoring terrorism. Iran believes that if the UN uses this solution, we can further extend our fight against the problem of state sponsored terrorism.

__Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/l2971.doc.htm http://untreaty.un.org/english/Terrorism/Conv12.pdf http://www.un.org/sc/ctc/__


 * Iran and It's Stance on Suicide Bombing**__

__Background__ The topic of terrorism has been very influential and has played a key part in golbal affairs since the attack on September 11th, 2001. One of the most effective methods used by terrorist cells is suicide bombing. It involves attatching a bomb to a person and walking/driving into a highly concentrated area of people and detonating the bomb. This method is used because of the high casualty rate is causes. The world as a whole has looked into several solutions to suicide bombings. However, being almost completely undetectable because of the concealment that it invloves has been a worthy obstacle to those trying to solve it.

__United Nations Involvement__ The United Nations has had a keen interest in stopping the attacks of suicide bombing. The assembly has looked into several solutions, however, none of them have succeeded. Because of the difficult task of stopping the bombings at the source, the UN has looked into stopping the funding of the terrorist groups, which could stop the suicide bombers from recieving materials. Because terrorism is such a big issue today, the United Nations has been interested in this topic and will continue to discover ways of uncovering and terminating suicide bombing attacks.

__Country Policy and Involvement__ Because Iran stands against the act of terrorism, and suicide bombing clearly falls under the category of terrorist activity, we also strongly oppose this method. Iran has been accussed of sponsoring terrorist organizations that use suicide bombing as one of their main attacks, we have recently come under fire for supporting these dispicable attacks. Iran would like to clear up that we as a nation, do not support terrorism and terrorist acts in any way, shape, or form. In fact, we have had several suicide bombings occur in our nation against our government. Because of this, we condem suicide bombing and the results that it causes.

__Solutions__ Iran has been involved with several other nations in order to discover solutions to stop this rash assault. We believe that a clear solution to the problem would be to stop the terrorist cells cash flows, therefore they cannot recieve any materials to execute these plans. And without funding, the terrorist groups would collapse and the problem of not just suicide bombing, but terrorism as well, could be stopped. As another solution, we support the idea of putting checkpoints at several points around major cities affected by suicide bombings. The main checkpoints would be placed on the city borders, but there would also be several checkpoints in the interior of the city. Iran believes that either of these solutions could rid the world of suicide bombing once and for all.