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Iran and Syria - the recent sponsors of Hezbollah's war against Israel - use the UN's Sixth Committee to cast victims as terrorists and terrorists as victims. The Sixth Committee is supposed to take the lead on international law. Iran calls "foreign occupation" the "most lethal, horrific and devastating form of state terrorism" and a root cause of terrorism while Syria calls for "a clear distinction between terrorism and the just fight of people against foreign occupation". Syria also blames terrorism on the Danish cartoons: "the cartoons that depicted the prophet in an unbecoming manner, represent intellectual terrorism and those who hold these doctrines must be held accountable for the resurgence of terrorism." The Organization of the Islamic Conference - representing 56 Islamic countries - joins their calls for distinguishing between "terrorism and the just fight of people under foreign occupation."