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45 years after Iran attacked the US, Trump took revenge
JFeed ^ | 06.22.25

Posted on 06/22/2025 5:30:56 AM PDT by Freeleesy

For 40 years, Iran’s relentless hostility toward the U.S. has fueled proxy wars, terror attacks, and nuclear ambitions. Now, after diplomatic overtures were rejected, America’s decisive strike on Iran’s nuclear sites signals a historic turning point in the Middle East power struggle.

For 40 years, Iran has reverberated with the menacing chant of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” a rallying cry born from the 1979 Islamic Revolution under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last night, Saturday, June 21, 2025, that decades-long hostility faced a decisive response when President Donald Trump authorized a U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan, declaring them “completely and totally obliterated.” After years of enduring Iran’s aggression, ranging from hostage crises to proxy attacks, Trump had enough. He offered Iran a window to reach a diplomatic agreement, a chance they squandered, leading to a reckoning that has shifted the balance in the Middle East.

The roots of this confrontation trace back to November 4, 1979, when Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. This act set the tone for a 40-year campaign of hostility, with Iran branding the U.S. the “Great Satan” and supporting anti-American militias. In the 1980s, Iran-backed Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983, killing 63, and attacked a Marine barracks, claiming 241 lives. The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, linked to Iranian operatives, killed 19 U.S. servicemen. More recently, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has orchestrated attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, including a 2020 rocket strike that wounded American troops, and seized oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, disrupting global trade....


TOPICS: Editorial; Iran; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1979; 1983; 1996; 2020; 444day; 444days; cartersfolly; fafo; fixingcartersscrewup; hezbollah; hostages; houthis; iranfafo; irgc; islamofascism; jihad; jimmycarter; khobartowers; lebanon; marinebarracks; mullahcracy; peanutscarter; qassemsoleimani; redsea; ronaldreagan; tuckerproirannnukes
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1 posted on 06/22/2025 5:30:56 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

Better late
Than
Never.


2 posted on 06/22/2025 5:35:11 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

50 years of provocation.


3 posted on 06/22/2025 5:38:25 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Freeleesy

Personally, I’ve been waiting since November 4, 1979, for the bombings of last night to occur.


4 posted on 06/22/2025 5:39:12 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

Yes, from the time Iran took US hostages from the embassy over 50 years ago. Can’t people keep history straight? November 1979. Iran had it coming. We have been more that patient.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 5:42:07 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Freeleesy

I don’t think revenge was in Trump’s mind. That’s a side benefit for the rest of us.


6 posted on 06/22/2025 5:46:40 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Freeleesy

Yes, and both Obama and Biden went out of their way to favor the Iran theocracy over our middle east allies, such as Saudi Arabia.


The Obama regime claimed the Iranians were much more civilized and easier to deal with then the Sunni Muslims. Obama basically handed over Iraq to the Iranian militias.

Biden was, essentially, Obama’s third term.


7 posted on 06/22/2025 5:47:37 AM PDT by marktwain
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Especially the cash pallets by HUSSEIN Obama


8 posted on 06/22/2025 5:51:23 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

Doing what Jimmy Carter should have done in 1979.


9 posted on 06/22/2025 5:53:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: Freeleesy
The roots of this confrontation trace back to November 4, 1979, when Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Uh, no. The 1979 Iranian Revolution involved the overthrow of the Shah, who had been installed by the U.S. and Great Britain in a coup against the elected Mossadegh government in 1953.

10 posted on 06/22/2025 5:54:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Freeleesy

Jimmy Carter brought the ayatollahs to power. Barack Obama and the last administration financed their nuclear programs. Donald Trump reversed things.


11 posted on 06/22/2025 6:08:34 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: yldstrk

And Iran finally received a taste of their own medicine.


12 posted on 06/22/2025 6:10:20 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Doing what Jimmy Carter should have done in 1979.”

He couldn’t handle it. Reagan should have dealt with them January 1980.


13 posted on 06/22/2025 6:19:30 AM PDT by utax
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To: utax

True


14 posted on 06/22/2025 6:27:31 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy

the failure of prior presidents and administration has brought us to this point, thank you mr president who has the balls they did not possess


15 posted on 06/22/2025 6:28:53 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: utax

Reagan came into office in Jan. Of ‘81.


16 posted on 06/22/2025 6:30:40 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: Freeleesy

“ The roots of this confrontation trace back to November 4, 1979, when Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran…”

This action had a root


17 posted on 06/22/2025 6:30:43 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: EastTexasTraveler

Indeed another warning NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT HACK.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 6:31:35 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

At all.


19 posted on 06/22/2025 6:36:36 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Doing what Jimmy Carter should have done in 1979.”

And what started that?


20 posted on 06/22/2025 6:47:27 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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