State Terrorism: Supposition or Reality?!

The term “terrorism” is meaning to threaten and intimidate literally. This term that has French origin was first time used to describing Jacobins reign of terror during French revolutionary in which thousands people were murdered through summary executions and was surrounded entire society by fear. In recent decades especially after September 11 attacks, terrorism has obtained serious attentions of international community and we have seen discussions, researches and scientific papers about it every day. But meanwhile to “state terrorism” as the key aspect of terrorism paid attention lesser unfortunately and as before has remained lack of a decisive and accepted definition in spite of extensive using of it in legal and political literature. In this paper I try to define state terrorism in existed legal context, in addition I consider opinions and theories of legal eminent scholars in terrorism context and also expressed criticisms related to it.