Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism that has demonstrated a reckless intention to support, facilitate, and direct global terrorist activity. In addition to its blatant sponsorship of global terror, Iran intends to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Exacerbating an already worrisome pattern of dangerous behavior was the election of hardline Iranian President Ahmadinejad in June 2005. His provocative comments about wiping Israel off of the map and Iran’s continued activities to destabilize the region and pursue a nuclear weapons capability have heightened the world’s concern.