Cuba wants to be removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, but continues to support terrorism

The Castro dictatorship devotes a lot of time and resources lobbying to have itself removed from the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. However, it does nothing to stop its support of terrorism and terrorist organizations. After Israel eliminated Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, Cuba immediately denounced the act, siding with the terrorist organization.

The Cuban regime also supports Hamas terrorists in Palestine and has very close ties to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. And if that were not enough, they provide safe haven on the island to fugitive terrorists from Latin America, Spain, and even the U.S.

It seems the Castro dictatorship wants to have it both ways: continue supporting terrorism and not being on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

Nora Gamez Torres reports via AOL.com:

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel joined Russia and Iran in condemning what he called the “cowardly killing” by Israeli forces of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political party and militia deemed a terrorist organization by the U.S., even as Cuba spearheads a campaign to get itself removed from the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism.

Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah since 1992, was killed in Beirut in an airstrike by the Israeli military on Friday. President Joe Biden said in a statement that “Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror” and called his death “a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”

But Cuba, which has increasingly aligned with U.S. adversaries, is among the few countries that publicly criticized the killing.

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Cuba has a strong political alliance with Iran, which created Hezbollah to act as a proxy against Israel. The island’s government has long-established diplomatic ties with Hezbollah’s political wing. In 2021, the Cuban ambassador in Lebanon hosted the group’s international relations chief, Ammar Al-Moussawi, who railed against U.S. “conspiracies” and aggressive policies to sow “chaos and hunger” around the world, according to a statement by the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry.

But Díaz-Canel’s public condemnation of Nasrallah’s killing comes at an odd moment when the island’s diplomats have been lobbying foreign governments to pressure the Biden administration to remove Cuba from the list of sponsors of terrorism.

So far, the Biden-Harris administration has resisted the temptation to remove communist Cuba from the list, but no one knows how much longer they will be able to withstand that temptation.