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So who started the Islamic violence on non-Muslims in the Middle East and more?
Not 'who came first egg or chicken'
It's actually quite simple. The facts /history that is.
THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR SINCE 1984.
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeyās Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894ā1924.
Key Aspects of the 30-Year Genocide (1894ā1924):
Timeframe & Leadership:
The period began with the Hamidian massacres (1894ā1896) under Sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks (CUP) from 1914ā1918, and concluded with the Nationalist regime under AtatĆ¼rk from 1919ā1924.
-The Role of Jihad: A constant throughout this period was the calculated use of a "rallying cry of jihad" by the state to mobilize Muslim populations against Christian communities. The authors state that while this campaign was not justified under the core teachings of Islam, it was used to create a pure Muslim nation.
-Demographic Change: Christians, who made up about 20% of the population of Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the 1890s, were reduced to only 2% by 1924.
-Methods of Annihilation: The policy was characterized by premeditated mass killings, forced conversions, mass rapes, brutal abduction, and homicidal deportations.
Scale: The authors estimate that approximately 2.5 million Christians were killed, with many others forced into exile.
The August 1933 Simile massacre of Assyrians in Iraq.
providencemag.com
THE ANTI-JEWISH WAR SINCE 1920 IN THE HOLYLAND:
April 1920 "we will drink the blood of the Jews," and "Muhammad's religion was born with the sword."
'Throughout the 1920s, ā30s, and ā40s, Palestineās Arabs consistently rejected all proposals for a political compromise and flatly demanded all of Palestine, āfrom the river to the sea.ā And they did not restrict their activities to roundtable discussions. In April 1920, May 1921, and August 1929, Arab mobs, whose passions had been whipped up by religious and political leaders, attacked their Jewish neighbours and passers-by in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, and Safad, killing dozens in what amounted to a succession of pogroms...
But the articleās worst historical distortions concern the events surrounding the Second World War. Penslar claims that ābetween 9,000 and 12,000 Palestinians fought for the Allied forces in World War II.ā In fact, as far as I know, it is doubtful whether any Palestine Arabs actually āfoughtā during the war, though perhaps some 6,000 of Palestineās 1.2 million Arabs signed up with the British and served as cooks, drivers, or guards in British installations in Palestine. By comparison, around 28,000 of Palestineās Jewsāout of a population of around 550,000ājoined the British army, and many of them actually fought in North Africa and Italy in 1941ā1945.
This talk of Palestine Arabs āfightingā alongside the British is, at best, misleading. Palestineās Arabsālike most of the Middle Eastās Arabsāwould have preferred a Nazi German victory and the defeat of the Western democracies. The British were seen as the common enemy of the Germans and the Palestinians. As Sakakini, a Palestinian nationalist, relates in a diary entry of 1941, the Arabs of Palestine āhad rejoiced when the British bastion at Tobruk fell to the Germans,ā and ānot only the Palestinians rejoiced ā¦ but the whole Arab world.ā
This support for Hitler wasnāt merely a matter of the old adage that āmy enemyās enemy is my friend.ā Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Palestine national movement, was an outspoken antisemite. He aided the 1941 pro-Nazi revolt in Baghdad. When it collapsed, he fled to Berlin, where he spent the rest of the war years enjoying a handsome salary for his work as a Nazi propagandist and a recruiter of Balkan Muslims for the SS.
Palestineās Arabs thus assisted in the destruction of European Jewry in two ways: They successfully pressured the British into closing the gates of Palestine to European Jews fleeing the Holocaust; and they supported Germanyās efforts to win the war. In radio broadcasts from Berlin, Husseini called on the Arab world to rebel against Britain and "kill the Jews."')
Benny Morris ā The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict. Quillette. Feb 27, 2024.
[The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict]
[Benny Morris ā The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict]
THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: 1979:
In 1979, taking hostages for 444 days.
First it targeted the US, who they called "great saran," only later it began being obsessed with Israel who it saw as US tail and the little one.
It set up Hezbollah on 1981 in Lebanon, a year before Israel responded to "Palestine" Arafat attacks on its civilians who began the infamous methods of 'dead baby strategy', using its own people as human shields. The tactics lasting to these days and adopted by Hezbollah and other Islamists.
TARGETING JEWS
June 14, 1985: TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah after taking off from Athens. Passengers with Jewish-sounding names were separated from the others. U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered, and his body was thrown onto the tarmac. Dozens of passengers were held hostage for two weeks until some of the hijackersā demands were met.
Pursuing the nuclear bomb: Late 1980s-1990s: Iran began covertly purchasing technology and constructing secret sites.
Since 1991, had declared its annihilation wish/plan on Israel, including using nukes.
March 17, 1992: A Hezbollah suicide bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killed 29 civilians, including two Israelis, and injured 242 additional civilians. The embassy building collapsed, as did a nearby Catholic church, a school and an apartment building across the street. Most of the casualties were Argentine civilians, mainly children from the school.
On July 18, 1994, in Argentinaās deadliest terrorist attack ever, a truck bomb exploded near the Argentine Mutual Israelite Association (AMIA) Jewish community center building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more. The Lebanon-based Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah, at the instruction of Iranās top leadership and under the supervision of Iranian diplomats and intelligence officers, carried out the bombing.
A day later:
July 19, 1994, Iran's terror strikes again: Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 00901 which exploded near Colon, Panama, killing all 21 people on board, including 12 Jewish business leaders.
May 2008: Two Hezbollah terrorists were captured as they prepared to attack the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. The terrorists underwent advanced training in Iran before departing to Baku, carrying Iranian passports. During their arrest, security forces discovered pistols with silencers, explosives, cameras, binoculars and photographs of the Israeli embassy in their vehicle. The two were tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to this thwarted attack, a planned attack by Iranās Quds Force, aiming to harm Jewish figures at the Eurovision contest in Baku, was also prevented in 2008.
May 26, 2011: Eight Turkish citizens were injured in the attempted assassination of the Israeli Consul in Istanbul. The Quds Force led the attempted assassination with assistance on the ground from Hezbollah members. Preceding this attempt, in 2009 and 2010, were a number of unsuccessful attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to strike Israeli targets in Turkey.
Feb. 14, 2012: Several bombings in Bangkok, Thailand, injured five people. Thai authorities said the bombings were a botched attempt by Iranian nationals to assassinate Israeli diplomats. Several Iranians were arrested and charged with the attacks.
July 18, 2012, Hezbollah suicide bomber targeting a bus filled with Israeli tourists at Bulgaria's Burgas Airport. The explosion killed six peopleāfive Israelis and the Bulgarian driverāand injured 32 others.
May 30, 2015: A Lebanese-Canadian Hezbollah member was arrested in Larnaca, Cyprus, after 8.2 tons of potential bomb-making material were found in his basement. A month later, he was sentenced to six years in jail for preparing the ground for Hezbollah āto harm, through terrorist attacks, Israeli interests in Cyprus.ā
Aug. 9, 2018: Two Iranians who collected information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the U.S. and on opponents of the Iranian regime were arrested and later charged with spying for Tehran. One of those charged had carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House.
2024-2025
2024, Iran using criminsl fanfs to plot attacks on Jews and others. Especially in Sweden.
2025, And 14 countries in Europe and North America have accused Iran of plotting killings and kidnappings on Western soil.
THE ANTI-AMERICAN WAR SINCE 1979.
Here is only a partial record of the Iranian regimeās blood-soaked war on Americans:
November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran ā 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 ā including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel ā 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 ā including two American service members ā 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 ā 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 ā including one American citizen ā 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 ā including two Americans ā 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 ā 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 Martyrsā 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 ā including an American citizen ā 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 ā āroughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.ā
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 ā the only American to die in the conflict.
January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corpsā 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 2023 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.
[The Iranian Regimeās Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens]
Not 'who came first egg or chicken'
It's actually quite simple. The facts /history that is.
THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR SINCE 1984.
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkeyās Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894ā1924.
The Thirty-Year Genocide
A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearāA landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.āāTimes Literary SupplementāBrilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final...
books.google.com
Key Aspects of the 30-Year Genocide (1894ā1924):
Timeframe & Leadership:
The period began with the Hamidian massacres (1894ā1896) under Sultan Abdulhamid II, continued under the Young Turks (CUP) from 1914ā1918, and concluded with the Nationalist regime under AtatĆ¼rk from 1919ā1924.
-The Role of Jihad: A constant throughout this period was the calculated use of a "rallying cry of jihad" by the state to mobilize Muslim populations against Christian communities. The authors state that while this campaign was not justified under the core teachings of Islam, it was used to create a pure Muslim nation.
-Demographic Change: Christians, who made up about 20% of the population of Asia Minor (Anatolia) in the 1890s, were reduced to only 2% by 1924.
-Methods of Annihilation: The policy was characterized by premeditated mass killings, forced conversions, mass rapes, brutal abduction, and homicidal deportations.
Scale: The authors estimate that approximately 2.5 million Christians were killed, with many others forced into exile.
The August 1933 Simile massacre of Assyrians in Iraq.
Resolution in US House Would Recognize Simele Massacre against Assyrians in Iraq - Providence
The Simele Massacre, which occurred in 1933, is a largely forgotten tragedy that still awaits official recognition from both the Iraqi government and international community.
providencemag.com
THE ANTI-JEWISH WAR SINCE 1920 IN THE HOLYLAND:
April 1920 "we will drink the blood of the Jews," and "Muhammad's religion was born with the sword."
'Throughout the 1920s, ā30s, and ā40s, Palestineās Arabs consistently rejected all proposals for a political compromise and flatly demanded all of Palestine, āfrom the river to the sea.ā And they did not restrict their activities to roundtable discussions. In April 1920, May 1921, and August 1929, Arab mobs, whose passions had been whipped up by religious and political leaders, attacked their Jewish neighbours and passers-by in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Hebron, and Safad, killing dozens in what amounted to a succession of pogroms...
But the articleās worst historical distortions concern the events surrounding the Second World War. Penslar claims that ābetween 9,000 and 12,000 Palestinians fought for the Allied forces in World War II.ā In fact, as far as I know, it is doubtful whether any Palestine Arabs actually āfoughtā during the war, though perhaps some 6,000 of Palestineās 1.2 million Arabs signed up with the British and served as cooks, drivers, or guards in British installations in Palestine. By comparison, around 28,000 of Palestineās Jewsāout of a population of around 550,000ājoined the British army, and many of them actually fought in North Africa and Italy in 1941ā1945.
This talk of Palestine Arabs āfightingā alongside the British is, at best, misleading. Palestineās Arabsālike most of the Middle Eastās Arabsāwould have preferred a Nazi German victory and the defeat of the Western democracies. The British were seen as the common enemy of the Germans and the Palestinians. As Sakakini, a Palestinian nationalist, relates in a diary entry of 1941, the Arabs of Palestine āhad rejoiced when the British bastion at Tobruk fell to the Germans,ā and ānot only the Palestinians rejoiced ā¦ but the whole Arab world.ā
This support for Hitler wasnāt merely a matter of the old adage that āmy enemyās enemy is my friend.ā Muhammed Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Palestine national movement, was an outspoken antisemite. He aided the 1941 pro-Nazi revolt in Baghdad. When it collapsed, he fled to Berlin, where he spent the rest of the war years enjoying a handsome salary for his work as a Nazi propagandist and a recruiter of Balkan Muslims for the SS.
Palestineās Arabs thus assisted in the destruction of European Jewry in two ways: They successfully pressured the British into closing the gates of Palestine to European Jews fleeing the Holocaust; and they supported Germanyās efforts to win the war. In radio broadcasts from Berlin, Husseini called on the Arab world to rebel against Britain and "kill the Jews."')
Benny Morris ā The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict. Quillette. Feb 27, 2024.
[The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict]
[Benny Morris ā The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliāPalestinian Conflict]
THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: 1979:
In 1979, taking hostages for 444 days.
First it targeted the US, who they called "great saran," only later it began being obsessed with Israel who it saw as US tail and the little one.
It set up Hezbollah on 1981 in Lebanon, a year before Israel responded to "Palestine" Arafat attacks on its civilians who began the infamous methods of 'dead baby strategy', using its own people as human shields. The tactics lasting to these days and adopted by Hezbollah and other Islamists.
TARGETING JEWS
June 14, 1985: TWA Flight 847 was hijacked by Hezbollah after taking off from Athens. Passengers with Jewish-sounding names were separated from the others. U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered, and his body was thrown onto the tarmac. Dozens of passengers were held hostage for two weeks until some of the hijackersā demands were met.
Pursuing the nuclear bomb: Late 1980s-1990s: Iran began covertly purchasing technology and constructing secret sites.
Since 1991, had declared its annihilation wish/plan on Israel, including using nukes.
March 17, 1992: A Hezbollah suicide bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killed 29 civilians, including two Israelis, and injured 242 additional civilians. The embassy building collapsed, as did a nearby Catholic church, a school and an apartment building across the street. Most of the casualties were Argentine civilians, mainly children from the school.
On July 18, 1994, in Argentinaās deadliest terrorist attack ever, a truck bomb exploded near the Argentine Mutual Israelite Association (AMIA) Jewish community center building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more. The Lebanon-based Iranian terrorist proxy Hezbollah, at the instruction of Iranās top leadership and under the supervision of Iranian diplomats and intelligence officers, carried out the bombing.
A day later:
July 19, 1994, Iran's terror strikes again: Alas Chiricanas Airlines Flight 00901 which exploded near Colon, Panama, killing all 21 people on board, including 12 Jewish business leaders.
May 2008: Two Hezbollah terrorists were captured as they prepared to attack the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. The terrorists underwent advanced training in Iran before departing to Baku, carrying Iranian passports. During their arrest, security forces discovered pistols with silencers, explosives, cameras, binoculars and photographs of the Israeli embassy in their vehicle. The two were tried and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prior to this thwarted attack, a planned attack by Iranās Quds Force, aiming to harm Jewish figures at the Eurovision contest in Baku, was also prevented in 2008.
May 26, 2011: Eight Turkish citizens were injured in the attempted assassination of the Israeli Consul in Istanbul. The Quds Force led the attempted assassination with assistance on the ground from Hezbollah members. Preceding this attempt, in 2009 and 2010, were a number of unsuccessful attempts by Iran and Hezbollah to strike Israeli targets in Turkey.
Feb. 14, 2012: Several bombings in Bangkok, Thailand, injured five people. Thai authorities said the bombings were a botched attempt by Iranian nationals to assassinate Israeli diplomats. Several Iranians were arrested and charged with the attacks.
July 18, 2012, Hezbollah suicide bomber targeting a bus filled with Israeli tourists at Bulgaria's Burgas Airport. The explosion killed six peopleāfive Israelis and the Bulgarian driverāand injured 32 others.
May 30, 2015: A Lebanese-Canadian Hezbollah member was arrested in Larnaca, Cyprus, after 8.2 tons of potential bomb-making material were found in his basement. A month later, he was sentenced to six years in jail for preparing the ground for Hezbollah āto harm, through terrorist attacks, Israeli interests in Cyprus.ā
Aug. 9, 2018: Two Iranians who collected information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the U.S. and on opponents of the Iranian regime were arrested and later charged with spying for Tehran. One of those charged had carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House.
2024-2025
2024, Iran using criminsl fanfs to plot attacks on Jews and others. Especially in Sweden.
2025, And 14 countries in Europe and North America have accused Iran of plotting killings and kidnappings on Western soil.
THE ANTI-AMERICAN WAR SINCE 1979.
Here is only a partial record of the Iranian regimeās blood-soaked war on Americans:
November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran ā 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 ā including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel ā 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 ā including two American service members ā 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 ā 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 ā including one American citizen ā 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 ā including two Americans ā 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 ā 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 Martyrsā 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 ā including an American citizen ā 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 ā āroughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.ā
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 ā the only American to die in the conflict.
January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iranās Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corpsā 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 2023 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.
[The Iranian Regimeās Decades of Terrorism Against American Citizens]
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