Iranian rockets used in attack on U.S.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on the cover of a booklet captured in Lebanon by the IDF in the second Lebanon War in 2006

New evidence is surfacing in the Middle East documenting Iran's continuing support of terrorist activity in Iraq, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Shiite insurgents fired Iranian-made rockets in an Aug. 17 attack on a U.S. military base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, according to the World Tribune.

Iraqi security forces found in the eastern portion of Basra a launcher that appears to have been smuggled into Iraq from Iran with 13 Iranian rockets.

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This week has seen a surge in car bombings and explosions in Baghdad killing at least 95 people and directly challenging the effectiveness of Iraqi security amid the U.S. pullback ordered by the Obama administration, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The reports of Iranian-made rockets being used in the recent upsurge of terrorist attacks in Iraq come amidst reports by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel that Iran directly controls the terrorist activity of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Two rare statements recently analyzed by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center document Iran's direct control over Hezbollah in Iran.

Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser on international affairs to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, stated that Iran provided Hamas with full, comprehensive support and that Hezbollah was indebted to the Iranian leadership.

The center cited an interview Ali Akbar Velayati gave to Al-Jazeera TV that Iran gave Hezbollah and Hamas full, comprehensive support, and that without it they would not have "won" the second Lebanon war Israel fought against Hezbollah in 2006 or the Operation Cast Lead incursion of the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas in Gaza last year.

On July 30, Sheik Naim Qassem, Hezbollah's deputy secretary general, told the Lebanese daily Nahar al-Shabab that Hezbollah looked to Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran for guidance, including making decisions regarding whether Hezbollah should go to war against Israel.

Sheik Naim Quassem, Hezbollah deputy secretary general, speaking at the Iranian embassy in Lebanon on the anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death, June 3

Qassem's recent statement reflects statements he has made in the past.

On April 16, 2007, Qassem admitted in an interview with the Iranian Arabic TV station Al-Kawthar that Hezbollah did not determine its own policies. Instead, he said, the group was subordinate to the authority of the Iranian leadership from which it received Muslim religious guidance regarding every facet of its fight against Israel, including the authorization of suicide bombing attacks and rocket-fire into Israel.

On Wednesday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Tehran for discussions with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency.

Separately, WND has reported that the Obama administration's lead candidate to serve as U.S. ambassador to Syria is Daniel Kurtzner, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel who has been identified by Jewish and Israeli as biased against Israel and notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state.