Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan are the most well known terrorist governments in the world. Of those seven countries, Iran is the most active supporter of terrorism. They allow terrorists to live inside their countries and give them the support they need to carry out their attacks on others. Countries that sponsor terrorism give terrorists a way to live safely, raise money, and prepare for attacks on innocent citizens of a country that they want to punish. The United States and other countries who are fighting against state sponsored terrorism have placed sanctions against those countries who give terrorists a safe place to live, train, and carry out their terrorist acts.

It is important to know that state sponsored terrorism has reduced slowly over the past five years. Many countries that did not seem to mind terrorist groups living and working inside their borders decided not to tolerate them any longer. Some countries who have sponsored terrorist groups have started to expel terrorist groups.

Arab Liberation Front
15 May Organization
Palestine Liberation Front
Abu Nidal Organization
Mujahedin-e Khalq