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Bill Clinton's once-secret cable to Iran a reminder Tehran's terror killed hundreds of Americans
https://justthenews.com ^ | June 18, 2025 | John Solomon

Posted on 06/19/2025 8:01:36 PM PDT by bitt

Toll from Tehran’s terrorism and proxy attacks are a serious factors in Trump’s decision on whether to support or even join the Israeli war effort.

Three years after 19 Americans died in a bombing at a Saudi Arabian apartment complex, then-President Bill Clinton sent a cable that told Iran’s president a secret that the 42nd president wasn’t even willing to tell the American public: U.S. intelligence had ample evidence that Tehran was behind the deadly Khobar Towers terror attack.

“Message to President Khatami from President Clinton: The United States Government has received credible evidence that members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, (IRGC) along with members of Lebanese and Saudi Hizballah, were directly involved in the planning and execution of the terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia of the Khobar Towers military resident complex,” the 1999 cable declared.

“The United States views this in the gravest terms,” the cable continued. “We acknowledge that the bombing occurred prior to your election. Those responsible, however, have yet to face justice for this crime. And the IRGC may be involved in planning for further terrorist attacks against American citizens. The involvement of the IRGC in terrorist activity and planning abroad remains a cause of deep concern to us.”

You can read that memo here:

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BillClintonCabletoIran1999KhobarPlusResponse.pdf

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1 posted on 06/19/2025 8:01:36 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/19/2025 8:01:48 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

I guess he told them, huh?


3 posted on 06/19/2025 8:04:02 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: bitt

“a cause of deep concern”


4 posted on 06/19/2025 8:06:45 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: telescope115
Yep, like somebody's daddy, for the twentieth time, "I'm not going to tell you again.."

Clinton. Trash personified. Thank you Ross Perot, you moron, for getting Toilet Bowl Bill elected to potus.

5 posted on 06/19/2025 8:11:38 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: LouAvul

George Bush lost that election all on his own.


6 posted on 06/19/2025 8:13:29 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: telescope115

Slick Willy was hoping Iran would send him a hot Persian broad to give him a BJ


7 posted on 06/19/2025 8:14:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bitt

I shall respond with a sternly written letter!


8 posted on 06/19/2025 8:25:00 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: bitt

Sickening. Just as sickening as shaking hands with an ISIS leader, installing him to lead Syria, and removing all sanctions against him.

DC is trash... has been for decades.


9 posted on 06/19/2025 8:52:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: bitt

I smile that DJT is making ALL of the living former presidents look like the biggest wussies on the planet.

I just pray that he’s not already waited too long to act...


10 posted on 06/19/2025 8:53:30 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: bitt

I worked with an ex MC130 loadmaster. He went to sleep in the Khobar towers one night and woke up outside on the ground with an injured back. Didn’t hear the bomb explode, just woke with rubble all around and in pain. Air Force gave him a disability discharge. He knew it was Iran that was our #1 problem.


11 posted on 06/19/2025 9:42:30 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: Waverunner; All

Yeah, Iran...pretty much the single reason the “Wounded Warrior Project” was/is needed.

https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org

We (PDJT) got some payback with several Hellfires up Soleimani’s rear in 2020, but some more is in order.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50979463


12 posted on 06/19/2025 10:00:48 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Repeal The 17th

“ I shall respond with a sternly written letter!”

Literally did.


13 posted on 06/20/2025 1:03:04 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt

They covered up way more than just Khobar Towers.


14 posted on 06/20/2025 3:47:14 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: bitt; All

Indeed: Khobar Towers, I almost forgot.


15 posted on 06/20/2025 3:50:16 AM PDT by Words Matter
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To: dfwgator

“George Bush lost that election all on his own.”

Without Perot, Bush would have won. Perot was a breath of fresh air who told the truth and the people were responding until Perot had to take a break, some say due to very credible threats to his life.

Regardless, Bush, the former CIA chief, had his man in Clinton. So it was a win win.


16 posted on 06/20/2025 5:26:52 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: dfwgator
George Bush lost that election all on his own.

I don’t agree. I recall the debates in 1992, and it was all 2 on 1. Bush was getting smacked from 2 directions at once.

17 posted on 06/20/2025 8:06:25 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto

And then Bush looked at his watch. It was a very low-energy campaign on his part.

And although I disagreed with everything Clinton stands for, he dominated those debates.


18 posted on 06/20/2025 8:07:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I usually agree with you, but Perot worked for Clinton twice ... Both 92 and 96 ...


19 posted on 06/20/2025 8:11:47 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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