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In June 1985, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, chaired by Sen. Jeremiah Denton (R-Ala.), issued an important report entitled State-Sponsored Terrorism. One of the documents reproduced in that report was an Iranian document that had been stamped "TOP SECRET" by the government of Iran. A photo reproduction of the document in the original Farsi was included, along with an English translation. It was the official memorandum of a meeting held in Tehran in May 1984, presided over by Ayatollah Mohammed Khatami, who was then Iran's Minister of Guidance, but would later become Iran's president. In the words of the document, the purpose of the meeting was for the "creation of an independent brigade for carrying out unconventional warfare in enemy territory."
Ayatollah Khatami explained to the exclusive invitees--which included Iran's top cabinet officials and the chiefs of its military, clergy, and intelligence agencies--that the meeting was being held in obedience "to the orders of His Eminence ... Ayatollah Imam Khomeini ... the great leader of the revolution, and the founder of the Islamic…
Source: HighBeam Research, Iran's global terror network: from Iraq to Afghanistan to South...