The Iranian Regime’s Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens
The following is from the Trump team.
For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic of Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — has killed and maimed American citizens and service members through its own forces and proxy militias. More Americans have been killed by Iran than any other terrorist regime on Earth.
President Donald J. Trump is doing what Presidents over the last five decades have refused to do — eliminate the threat once and for all. By destroying Iran’s missiles, annihilating their navy, and ensuring they can never obtain a nuclear weapon, the Trump Administration’s bold and decisive action is protecting American lives and advancing American interests.
Here is only a partial record of the Iranian regime’s blood-soaked war on Americans:
November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff.
April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.
March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.
September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed 23 innocent people — including two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.
December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed two American officials.
June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.
July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.
August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.
February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.
March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed 20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.
May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.
June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed 19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.
August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people — including a dozen American citizens.
August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.
January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed 17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.
October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.
Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”
August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.
August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.
January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.
March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.
July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.
October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.
December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.
January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.
September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.
July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.
September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.
March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.
October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.
December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.
January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.
Between October 2003 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.
November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.
June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.
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Kissing the Book that says Lie to & Kill non-believers…
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Kissing the Book that says Lie to & Kill non-believers…
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I bet his hands are as soft as a goat's underbelly. Eewww.
The only thing that old monster kissed lately is his ass goodbye.
What do all these deaths have in common, other than being committed by Iran or their proxies? They were all done on Middle Eastern soil. how many attacks were done in Europe or Western nations, or were they all done whilst the U.S. was on their soil. The answer should be obvious and Ron Paul laid it out and stated it to the world in a Presidential debate.
The same thing can be said of Libya.
Obama bombed and overthrew Gadaffi.
Nobody complained or filed lawsuits.
Explain the difference to me?
John Kerry was alledgedly at the morning of the Ayatolah in Dearborn Michigan.
Not sure why thus hasn't been all over.
Why would democrats support and legally defend an Islamic theocracy that gunned down tens of thousands of protesters?
INSANITY
Why? chronic TDS.
Surely there’s a cream or powder that can clear that affliction up.
I believe his daughter married an Iranian.
all because of helping the people of Demon Baal, Israel
Hugh Idiot
You're a retard
Hoping Iran is utterly destroyed as a terrorist country.
72 bearded virgins are waiting on him.
Carter should have retaliated back when Iran took over the US embassy and held US citizens hostage. Imagine how many fewer terrorist actions would have occurred if he had taken action. By the time that Reagan took office Iran was entrenched.
We finally have a president who is looking out for US citizens and freeing the people of Iran.
Jimmy forced busing Carter was a chicken sh** gave away the Panama Canal. He was a beaut.
Carter was a fool. He was also duped & deceived by the
Palestiniandisplaced Egyptian terrorist Yes-sir You're-a-fart who became the president of the PLO terrorists when these Jordanians and Egyptians started calling themselves "Palestinians". Peanut Jimmy was so enamored by this terrorist, that he offered him the hand of his homely daughter for marriage.Disney mentality.
Iran has done nothing, the US/Israel government is the terror organization the American people need to fear and stop. Quit targeting the scapegoats they use.
Since its inception in 1979 the Iranian theocracy has killed well over 1000 Americans; 260 soldiers in their barracks being notable. Most of the rest had the misfortune of being innocent travelers and temporary residents.
On one day in September the US government killed over 3000 Americans. But since they lied to you about that, and obviously tell the truth about a country they are trying to villainize and make war against, I guess that doesn’t really matter.
This is an unfounded and scurrilous LIE. Prove it to me. You have nothing but speculations based on internet fantasies. Iran started the villanization decades ago, has exported terrorism around the world ever since their hideous, malevolent, demon-possesses theocracy has was forced upon the Iranian people. Those are the FACTS, as tens of thousands of missiles Iran has fired at innocent people prove. A cancer has to be removed, and that is in process.
That’s not fact, it’s propaganda. The cancer is never the country attacked, but always the attacker. And the malignant tumor is those who are so oblivious to what is going on they blame the people who had 165 school girls bombed on purpose, rather than the bomber.
Yeah, as I thought, deflection and NO PROOF! Iran, along with their proxies is nothing more than a theocratic terrorist state. You can’t defend them anymore than you can defend North Korea. Both are terrorists disguised as righteous underdogs. Like you. You offer no proof that the U.S. caused 911, just paranoid delusions useful to your hate filled Jihad, aboriginal, barbarian origins.
When one is so propagandized and brainwashed as you seem to be, there are no facts that will sway you from your support of the propaganda and brainwashing. That’s how they work. Best you can do is make up names for the person challenging your brainwashed mind and exposing the propaganda for what it is. Its pretty transparent to one not brainwashed and who doesn’t fall for the lies.
The US and Israel terror group (not to be confused with the American people themselves) are the terrorist disguised as righteous, but the only ones who fall for it are the Americans who are under a massive psychological assault 24/7/365 to believe their “government” is always right, and every lie it tells is the truth. You fallacy exposes itself when you grasp that there is not a single instance in 250 years where the official government narrative has been even remotely truthful. And that includes the fantastical fairy tale about the “founding fathers” and their constitution that enslaves you today.
I can’t make you see reality, you have to CHOOSE to see it. Until then, every drop of Iranian (or Iraqi, or Syrian, or Palestinian) blood is on your hands. And I am sure the only result will be more name calling from someone who can’t support their own beliefs with any facts at all. I’m not going to waste my time with someone like you, because I have done enough of that over the years. Soon enough, you will have no choice but to wake up from you slumber, when your “good guys” start attacking you in your own country like they have been doing around the world for well over 100 years now.
The founding fathers have not enslaved me, nor anybody else. Indeed, standing on the shoulders of Britain, which began our emancipation from tyranny in the Magna Carta, they designed a system that places people at the center of power, not the periphery as with your despotic Mullahs. You are the slave here, slave to your ideology, your propagandized feeble mind, and your indolent thinking. Don’t lecture us on the blood-letting of the middle east, which has existed from time immemorial. Let us not forget that your Iranian comrades were the darling of Adolph Hitler…
You are the one who believes whatever the government says is the way it is, as you bootlick their every utterance in a society that doesn’t even have the right to vote, as with most of your brethren in the whole of the middle east. Your patently transparent tactic of labeling me as unable to distinguish right from wrong is thrown up as a defense because you have NO PROOF of any of what you say. It’s all merely Marxist-Communist talking points conducive to your slavish need to be controlled by clerics, to tell you you are “good” as long as you obey them!
YOU are the brainwashed dolt, the sycophant, who kisses the earth five times a day in a foolish attempt to show the world how pious you are, all the while hoping to decapitated any Jew you can get your hands on! The Islamic lie that enthralls the middle east must be extirpated by force as you are unable to let go of HATE.
You apparently have no idea who or what you are even talking about. LOLOLOL. But it is humorous the see you get all worked over over your own bigotry and hatred for anything your cult doesn’t approve of.
Nothing but side-stepping and evasion from your empty cranium. You’re a chat-bot, and thus sub-human, just like the rest of your Islamic “useful idiots.” I’m not worked over in the least, that is merely your puny cognition trying to understand me. To you this seems like effort, or emotional gyrations. No, you fool, you’re simply incapable of grasping reality. It’s too complicated for your Islamic/Reptilian, atavistic and barbarian excuse for a soul. Die in ignorance the way you have lived.
LOL. A bot calling me a bot. What an idiot.
We’ve been at war with Islam for a thousand years, there’s no living at peace with evil. Islam has been a blight on humanity since its invention by a pedophile, goat herding, thug.
You forgot caravan raider. Land pirate.
Followers of the quran and tulmad be cast into the ocean with a millstone tied around their necks.
I have not totaled up the number of our citizens, or others, that have been killed by Iran and it's support of terrorist groups. I started to, but realized it was way too many to be over looked. Thank you President Trump for putting an end to this regime. Now it's time for the Iranian people to eradicate any remainder of the ayatollah's government and become free.
A list full of a lot of facts and a lot of misattribution, which they know is not true. At least they stopped lying about the USS Cole bombing.
These rabid Islamic dogs have attacked and slaughtered Americans for decades and no President stood up to them until Trump.
During the embassy hostage crisis, the charred remains of American military helicopter pilots were put on public display in Tehran after the Operation Eagle Claw failed hostage rescue. I will never forget seeing those shocking images in mainstream news magazines. That was like another terror attack.
I wonder how many who are opposed to Epic Fury have any idea about that.
I remember it too. Mahmood Admeinjad was one of the hostage takers !!
All thanks to Jimmy Carter who pressured the Shaw to let the Islamic dissidents out of jail. Soon after the Islamic goons took over and had been funding terrorist ever since.
Kho meni, who was an illiterate, sent letters to Jimmy the Peanut claiming he wanted to go back home to Iran, he was in exile in France, and live out his last years in peace in his homeland. After tossing the Shah under the bus Jimmy convinced the Iranian military, which was under US sway, to let the lying old guy back into Iran. Within days of Kho meni's arrival most of the military brass and civilian leaders were mur dered or in jail. If Jimmy wasn't such a dupe the story would be much different today.
You can lay the US disasters in Iran and Afghanistan at the feet of Jimmy Peanut for brains Carter. Mr "peacemaker" has lots of blood on his hands as his actions set back the ME for decades as his actions allowed Mus lim fundamentalism to flourish.
What about Carter's HSCA?
And that's why you don't let millions cross your border and the Oath breakers that get paid to thwart an invasion and allowed one to happen should be punished.
And the left and others say Iran did nothing to the USA and that this is an unprovoked attack. Yea right!
Iran's Mullah terrorists are getting what they deserve!
The left, and even many on our MAGA right (libertarians to be sure), still say with a straight face Iran never killed Americans.
Well, we can’t fix stupidity right. Te facts prove otherwise.
Thanks for leaving OUT the 1953 CIA COUP of the democratically-elected government of Iran on behalf of BP OIL, and the imposition of the SHAH and his brutal regime on the nation and the CIA training of his secret police. EVERYONE'S HISTORY with Iran CONVENIENTLY begins in 1979 and NOT 1953. Typical.
The brutality of the Shah and his secret police exaggerated. What really caused the Iranian revolution was the Shah modernizing Iran angering the 17th century mentality of the Mus lim fundamentalists led by the likes of Kho meni. Same for Afghanistan which the US exploited to give the Soviets "their version of what the US experienced in Vietnam." In both cases women went from liberated to slaves covered head to toe.
What's not mentioned much is that a good chunk of the Iranian modernization was due to Israeli's flocking to Iran for the big bucks the Shah was paying for their expertise.
Yeah I bet half that list of "Iranian backed" and "Iranian proxy" terrorist attacks are mossad false flags.
Might want to dig a little deeper into Mosaddegh's plebiscite, David, along with the terms of the 1901 D'Arcy concession and how it was modified with the new agreement in 1933.
These events do not obviate the effects of ongoing foreign interference with Persia, but the Soviet demands for Caspian oil concessions during the WWII occupation, widen the scope of that interference.
The 1953 coup was not univariate in origin, and we can trace its origins back to the first world war. The final dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, loosened the hold of the foreign Turks, and that's where foreign capital investment in modernization began to be seen as necessary.
A closer look into the formation of the National Front, is also warranted. When we refer to a "democratically-elected" government, it's necessary to keep in mind that the National Front held eight of one hundred and thirty-six seats.
The plebiscite was not held with secret ballots. The risk we face with deploying the term "democratic," is one of possible category error.
Now a little balamce.
US encouraged Iraq to invade Iran in 1980. 500,000 dead. Being desperate and broke from that war, and Kuwait stealing Iraqi oil, Saddam invades Kuwait leading to the first Gulf War. Before invading, the US knew in advance, Saddam made a plea for money for doing the US and Gulf States bidding in the war with Iran and was told by the US no money we don't care what you do in your own area. Thus the first Gulf War and shock and awe. Under sanctions after the war it was claimed 500,000 Iraqi's died from those sanctions and US UN Ambassador Madeline Albright agreed with the number saying it was worth it. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 based on lies. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's died some claim over a million. US still has troops in Iraq. US supports head choppers in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 for the expressed purpose of drawing the Soviets into the conflict leading to the formation of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The year 2001 US invasion and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan with hundreds of thousands dead. US and Gulf allies foment war in Syria in 2011 leading to over 650,000 deaths. Based on the lies "he's killing his people" and "no more Rwanda's", NATO with mostly US participation bombed Libya into failed state. There's more.
The true story of the war in Rwanda, and the massacre, was the war started when the the CIA backed an invasion from neighboring countries by Rwanda expats.
Oh but we din do nuttin weez innercent.
And, yet, they still haven't learned not f c k with us . . .
Us?
I see he’s kissing the Huff’s Koran-there’s like 32 or more out there lol
This list is inadequate in that it only list American deaths and destruction. It, sadly, pales in comparison to the death and destruction the pedo mullah cult has dealt on their own people and the countries surrounding iran.
Why is your account history hidden, Neocon Zionist?
Good riddance, now the Iranian people can rejoin the 21st century again now that the Islamic radicals are toast.
They needed to be taken out!
This was ordained by God!!!
The timing of this in the Bible and the prophecy stated, is exactly what took place!!!
Jesus return is immenant and SOON!
Amen!
So can we count every one of the 700 or so bombings killing multiples Israel did as US backed terrorist attacks?
Counting proxy attacks as fact of attacks is dangerous, Iran has not attacked us and we have direectly attacked them.
Yes the Iranian regime are a bunch of goathumping aayholes that need a good putting down…….and yes Israel needs some kind of a smack from us for the crap theyve done to us…….bottom line is both these desert tribe jerkwads need to take their sphincters back to the desert and have at it, without our help.
Wonder how many of those were false flags or had nothing to do with Iran? I'm glad the mullahs are out of power but I wish it came with a plan for peace.
This war is about
1. the dollar; lashing out at threats to reserve status
2. perceived security for Israel
All the rest is propaganda.
Americans dying for Israel since 1948.
Make them all target proctice
There's a lot of "Red Paint" in the article. You missed a few other terrorist attacks on Americans. Like the Capitol Police on J-6 , Ashley Babbit comes to mind. Federal Agents inciting the riot. Who could forget the Terrorists at the Seige on the Bundy Ranch. Or the shot in the spine by the Terrorists in the FBI, that killed Randy Weavers wife while she was holding her baby at Ruby Ridge. The assassination of John F Kennedy by Terrorists here in the US Government. How about the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing? Iranians? I don't think so. How about the attack on the Davidians at WACO. Who could forget the Terrorists who attacked on 9/11 while Dancing Israeli mossad filmed the attack and were arrested. There are Terrorists Everywhere. You don't have to go far. A lot are located right in Washington DC.
AT LEAST 9-11 WASN'T ON THE LIST.
I hope the guy kissing the Koran is now kissing goat's butts in hell.
This belongs in The Onion.
You can follow how evil Iran’s rulers were by looking at the Bible. This evil goes all the way back to Moses.
And you can read your Traitorous Trump Bible in the NY parking lot where 5 Dancing Israeli Mossad ASSets celebrated while 3000 Americans were Mass Murdered by your Neocon Zionist Führers!
So you hate ALL Jews?
Are you afraid to ask that same question in a Disqus Chit Chat General Topic Forum, Zionist Chicken?
Not chicken I don’t label all people of the Jewish faith as evil. Do you also hate America which has experimented and caused the deaths of Americans by the experiments they did on the people?
See!
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Not true . I believe the towers were brought down from explosives and that rogue elements of the US and Israeli governments were involved. The deep state exists and manipulates events to push their agendas but I don’t label all Jews or gentiles evil because of the evil the people of this nation and Israel does
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Seems your afraid to answer the question!
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Don’t forget 1967 Israel bomb USS Liberty in the 6 days war claiming Israel thought we were Egyptian vessel and didn’t our F-15 got shot down due to friendly fire recently. These conspiracy saying Israel is behind the war has no proof they did it too. Let’s stay focus and determine who actually did the act. Iranian funded these proxy actors with weapons, drones, and missiles. Remember under trumps first term no wars started from Iran. Biden comes in hell broke loose. Now Trump is fixing it. Ending 8-9 wars so far, and neutered Iran. For most of people commenting probably wasn’t born to see this but I have. I saw what Iran did in 1979 vividly as a teenager to now. You don’t need money fund a person to strap a bomb to himself and detonate it. So stop denying that Iran had help or not. Because of the sake of Islam, radical Muslims are committing these atrocities
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Most of these incidents are trivial, not the work of Iranians per se, and the whole list pales to insignificance compared to the many hundreds of far more serious terrorist acts perpetrated by the American CIA and other thug agencies – not to mention the millions of civilians killed in wars perpetrated by the US and it's NATO proxies. And if you want to consider Hamas and Hezbollah as Iranian proxies, instead of what they are, local guerrilla freedom fighters, you need to add in the many hundreds if not thousands of Israeli Mossad terrorists incidents.
I as an American citizen am outraged at this unprovoked war of aggression by the US Government, which has indeed become the Great Satan that Iranian propagandists of many decades ago condemned, as well as the Paper Tiger that the ChiComs nonsensically railed against under Mao. The world has turned upside down politically in every way and the US has now become the fountainhead of evil in the world, and I include the American people in this condemnation because they have tolerated this transformation through their ignorance, their stupidity, their dishonesty, and their lack of personal responsibility.
FO, shlomo
New piece of shit troll is blocked..