Iran Admits to Facilitating 9/11 Attacks, Report Says | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    For the first time ever, Iranian government officials have admitted to helping facilitate the 9/11 terror attacks that resulted in the deaths of approximately 3,000 Americans.

    The Washington Free Beacon reports:

• Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant in Iran's judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks broadcast on Iran's state-controlled television that Iranian intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic, according to an English translation published by Al Arabiya.

    "Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence," Larijani was quoted as saying in the May 30 interview, as reported by Adam Kredo.

    The Beacon notes that this is the first time that top Iranian officials have admitted publicly to aiding the Islamic terrorist attack carried out by al Qaeda.

    "The Americans took this as evidence of Iran's cooperation with al-Qaeda and viewed the passage of an airplane through Iran's airspace, which had one of the pilots who carried out the attacks and a Hezbollah military leader sitting [next to] him on board, as evidence of direct cooperation with al-Qaeda through the Lebanese Hezbollah," Larijani stated.

    The U.S. government published a tweet from the official State Department Twitter account, specifically their Arabic-only Twitter account, that showed the official making the remark.