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Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present)
FDD ^ | 06/20/2025 | Tzvi Kahn

Posted on 07/25/2026 2:58:00 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans. This memorandum provides select documentation of these assaults. While the list is not comprehensive, it demonstrates that Tehran continues to pose a threat to U.S. forces in the Middle East, the American homeland, and Americans residing across the globe.

November 1979-January 1981: Iranian students — with the backing of Tehran — take 66 Americans hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

April 1983: A suicide car bombing kills 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The Iran-backed terrorist group Islamic Jihad, a precursor and early branch of Hezbollah (not to be confused with Palestinian Islamic Jihad), claims responsibility.

October 1983: Operatives of the Iran-backed Hezbollah drive a truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut, killing 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel.

December 1983: Hezbollah operatives drive an explosives-filled dump truck through the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City. No Americans are harmed.

March 1984: Terrorists kidnap CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut, subsequently torturing and ultimately killing him in 1985. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1979; 1983; 1984; 2023; 2024; 2025; 2026; 911; assassinationplots; assassinations; assassins; bombombombombombiran; cartersfolly; explosives; gwot; hamastimeline; hezbollahtimeline; iran; irantimeline; terroristattacks; timelines

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Rest of list on site. Iran has murdered a lot of Americans since the mullahs siezed power in 1979. Rest of list of murdered Americans at link above. Time they paid for their crimes after getting away with it for 47 years.
1 posted on 07/25/2026 2:58:00 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Btt


2 posted on 07/25/2026 3:05:52 PM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence And yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: PerConPat

That’s just the stuff we know about. Many others suspected.


3 posted on 07/25/2026 3:23:37 PM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: SmokingJoe

4 posted on 07/25/2026 3:28:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Pete Dovgan

For sure...


5 posted on 07/25/2026 3:43:50 PM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence And yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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To: SmokingJoe
Can we talk about the support that the US threw behind Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians were killed, or is that another thread?

(Don't worry; I get it. It's very important that we be the victim here.)

6 posted on 07/25/2026 4:00:01 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("Ne illegitimi carborundum esse.")
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People/soldiers dying in a war is not the same as slaughtering civilians in cold blood over and over again, outside war, which is what Iran has done for 47 years.
But hey, I get it, Democrats will now regularly support those who murder Americans lately ....because Trump.
7 posted on 07/25/2026 4:10:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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None of this was a secret over the decades, yet the current president was elected on assurances that he, unlike his opponent, would not get us into a war in the Middle East.


8 posted on 07/25/2026 4:12:42 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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It doesn’t mention the USS The Sullivans and USS Cole where Iran helped with the shaped charges.


9 posted on 07/25/2026 4:14:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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