The Threat of Terror

The Washington Post is reporting that Iran is threatening to use terror if attacked. I'm sorry, but this is laughable. Iran is already using terrorism to further its aims.

As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.

Iran would mount attacks against U.S. targets inside Iraq, where Iranian intelligence agents are already plentiful, predicted these experts. There is also a growing consensus that Iran's agents would target civilians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, they said.

U.S. officials would not discuss what evidence they have indicating Iran would undertake terrorist action, but the matter "is consuming a lot of time" throughout the U.S. intelligence apparatus, one senior official said. "It's a huge issue," another said.

It funds terrorist groups, including Hizbullah and Hamas. And Hizbullah already has US blood on its hands in the form of 241 Marines, soldiers, and sailors who were killed by Hizbullah suicide truck bombers who destroyed their barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983 where those soldiers, sailors, and Marines were deployed in a peacekeeping operation.

Iran was never held to account for that, nor was Iran ever held to account for its sacking of the US embassy in 1979 and the illegal holding of US embassy workers for 444 days. This, despite the overt links between the Iranian regime and the attacks.

So, it should be taken as a given that Iran will likely use terrorism as a tactic of warfare should the US attack. Of course, it should also be abundantly clear that terrorism has been an ongoing tactic of the Iranian regime' war against the US and the West since 1979.

UPDATE:
Ed Morrissey has similar thoughts on Iran's statements. Iran is a terrorist state and will use terrorism to further its goals. And he notes ominously:

The real question isn't whether Iran might step up its attacks after we eliminate this nuclear capacity -- it's whether we will ever be able to stop Iranian terrorist activity at all once the mullahs have the bomb.