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This goes to show that Americans are either trying to be smart or that they are really stupid beyond belief. Al-Qaeda is a sworn enemy of Iran and whenever they have had the chance they have attacked Iran, even before they went to war with US. In fact they were targeting Iranians when Al-Qaeda was still an ally of United States. Iran even had thought to go to war with Taliban and their allies Al-Qaeda in 1998 when Taliban was negotiating deals with United States. So this notion that Iran supported Al-Qaeda is certainly a propaganda to pave the way to go to war with Iran. In fact there are solid ties between Al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia but of course Saudi Arabia can not be mentioned in this case since we all know for what reason.
Though there is no relations between Iran and Al-Qaeda but we have also to be fair and impartial. To say that Iran has no connection with Sunni revolutionary movement is a folly. Iranian revolution has actually its roots in Sunni revolutionary movements. Khomeini as the founder of Iranian revolution was an avid reader of Sayyid Qutb's books and even today Khamenei has personally translated Qutb's books into Persian and published them. Iran and the revolution there has had old, deep and solid links with Muslim Brotherhood which probably continues today. Iran's revolution was inspired by Muslim Brotherhood and Banna's ideas, though in a modified version to accommodate with Shia Islam which was apolitical till that time. The difference here is that Muslim Brotherhood never was an American ally but Al-Qaeda was created by Americans and was an American ally for a long time before the rift between them. Though Al-Qaeda later on completely moved away from ideology of Qutb and made their own versions of everything based on Wahabi ideology, but in the start they had borrowed from Muslim brotherhood. So there is an Iranian connections with the ideology but not with Al-Qaeda which is a western creation.
Though there is no relations between Iran and Al-Qaeda but we have also to be fair and impartial. To say that Iran has no connection with Sunni revolutionary movement is a folly. Iranian revolution has actually its roots in Sunni revolutionary movements. Khomeini as the founder of Iranian revolution was an avid reader of Sayyid Qutb's books and even today Khamenei has personally translated Qutb's books into Persian and published them. Iran and the revolution there has had old, deep and solid links with Muslim Brotherhood which probably continues today. Iran's revolution was inspired by Muslim Brotherhood and Banna's ideas, though in a modified version to accommodate with Shia Islam which was apolitical till that time. The difference here is that Muslim Brotherhood never was an American ally but Al-Qaeda was created by Americans and was an American ally for a long time before the rift between them. Though Al-Qaeda later on completely moved away from ideology of Qutb and made their own versions of everything based on Wahabi ideology, but in the start they had borrowed from Muslim brotherhood. So there is an Iranian connections with the ideology but not with Al-Qaeda which is a western creation.