41.   The United States and Israel label Syria a state sponsor of terrorism, accusing it of backing Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militant groups opposed to peace with Israel.

42.   The United States considers Iran the leading state sponsor of world terrorism and has urged the European Union to heed an economic boycott.

43.   The United States says Iran is the leading state sponsor of world terrorism.

44.   Washington has long regarded Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.

45.   However, he stressed that compliance with the UN resolutions would not automatically remove Libya from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

46.   Israel for its part has said it will ask the world to declare Iran a state sponsor of terrorism following the seizure.

47.   Cuba remains the only Latin American country officially designated state sponsor of terrorism.

48.   Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will next week ask for Iran to be declared a state sponsor of terrorism over the incident, his ministry announced.

49.   The US government lists Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.

50.   The United States lists as state sponsors of terrorism Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.