CIA Documents Prove Link Between Iran and Al-QaedaTerrorism 06 November 2017 Iran Focus London, 6 Nov - A strong relationship between the Iranian Regime and Al-Qaeda has long been suspected, but recently released documents, seized during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan complex, confirm it. The documents, released last week by the CIA, show a long history between the leading state sponsor of terrorism and the terror cell dating all the way back to the early 1990s. Many who seem surprised about this mutual relationship are hung up on the Sunni/ Shiite ideological divide between the terrorist group and the rogue nation, but instead of focusing on their differences, experts should focus on what they had to offer the other. The Iranian Regime saw that Al-Qaeda could help them achieve their two main revolutionary ideals: anti-Americanism and undermining Saudi Arabia’s interests, while Al-Qaeda needed money and training in order to actually carry out large-scale terror attacks li...