State Department Says Iran Still Biggest State Sponsor of Terror, Spends $1B a Year on Proxies

Nathan Sales, coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing concerning terrorism and radicalization in North Africa, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 6, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Iran is still the “world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism,” according to a new report published by the the U.S. Department of State on Nov. 1.

The Country Reports on Terrorism 2018 says Iran has spent nearly $1 billion annually to “support terrorist groups that serve as its proxies and expand its malign influence across the globe.”