Originally posted by: tom
Of the 8 only Iran is led by suicidal maniacs.
Iran has been attacking the US for decades
The Iranian regime’s anti-American campaign began with the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. In the 1980s, Hezbollah—funded, trained, and directed by Iran—carried out a wave of terror: the April 1983 suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that killed 63 people, and the October 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. service personnel
A series of kidnappings, hijackings, and executions—including the torture and murder of of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley in 1984—terrorized Americans abroad. Beginning in the 1990s, the Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad also carried out a wave of terror in Israel that included the deaths of many Americans, including a Hamas bus bomb in Jerusalem in 1996 that killed three Americans and the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that killed three Americans, 15 in total.
The Khobar Towers bombing on June 25, 1996, was carried out by Hezbollah al-Hejaz, a Saudi-based militant group with strong ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack involved a massive truck bomb detonated near a housing complex for U.S. Air Force personnel in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American airmen and injuring nearly 500 others. A forensic investigation by the FBI determined direct Iranian responsibility for the bombing.
The U.S. Department of Defense has said that Iran was responsible for at least 608 American troop deaths in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, some 17% of all U.S. service personnel deaths in that time period. Iran trained and armed proxy fighters with advanced weapons—including deadly explosively formed penetrators (EFPs)—used to penetrate armor in order to kill and injure U.S. troops.
March 23, 2023: An Iranian drone struck a U.S. base near Hasakah, Syria, killing one American contractor and wounding five U.S. troops.
On October 7, 2023, the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented massacre against Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages. Among the victims were more than 40 Americans. Several U.S. citizens were also taken hostage — including Itay Chen, Gad Haggai, Judy Weinstein Haggai, and Hersh Goldberg-Polin — all of whom were later confirmed murdered by Hamas.
I'm not convinced that the US should have attacked Iran.
