Negotiations: The Beginning of the End to Iran's 47 Year "Death to America War"?
I was so tired of hearing the Democrat’s “Trump’s War of Choice” talking point repeated ad nauseum by politicians, pundits, talking heads, and other “useful idiots,” that I decided to take a deep dive researching the long-standing conflict between Iran and the United States. What I found out was eye opening and I began to wonder why the United States took so long to take major military action against the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. You see, we have been in an undeclared war with Iran since November 4, 1979. Since that date more Americans have been killed by Iran and their proxies than any other terrorist state or group in the world.
In this essay I will take a look at Iran’s war with the United States. I will provide a summary beginning in 1979 of actions committed or funded by Iran to kill Americans. Iran’s theocratic dictatorship considers the United States “The Great Satan,” and has been trying to fulfill their “Death to America” mission for 47 years. Until President Trump took action to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, our political leadership could be compared to an ostrich with its head in the sand ignoring the war with Iran and hoping it will go away if we just play nice.
Below is a partial timeline of Iranian sponsored attacks on Americans during Iran’s “Death to America” War, (source: whitehouse.gov and The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China):
November 1979: Initially 66 Americans were taken hostage by Iranian-regime backed students who stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The hostages were brutally tortured during their 444-day captivity. Many hostages suffered lifelong mental and physical ailments due to their torture.
April 1983: 17 Americans were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut by The Islamic Jihad,
October 1983: 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other military personnel were killed at a Beirut Marine compound by Hezbollah, using a truck bomb.
March 1984: William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped and eventually murdered by Islamic Jihad terrorists.
September 1984: Hezbollah terrorists, using a car bomb, killed two American service members and 21 other innocents at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.
December 1984: Two American officials were brutally tortured and killed by Hezbollah terrorists who hijacked the Kuwait Airways flight they were on diverting it to Tehran.
June 1985: Another Hezbollah hijacking resulted in the brutal torture and death of an American service member. A U.S. Navy diver was shot in the head and his beaten and lifeless body tossed onto the tarmac of the Beirut airport.
July 1989:Hezbollah terrorists killed U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after a year-long captivity.
April 1995: One American and seven others were massacred by an Islamic Jihad car bomb in the Gaza Strip.
August 1995: One American and three other passengers were killed, and 100 others wounded by a Hamas suicide bomber. in Jerusalem bus bombing.
February 1996: A second Hamas suicide terrorist detonated a bomb on a Jerusalem bus targeting Americans, killing three and wounding three more.
March 1996: A suicide bomber with ties to both Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups murdered two Americans and 18 others by detonating a bomb in a Tel Aviv shopping center.
May 1996: An American citizen was wounded, and an American Israeli dual citizen was killed by Iran-backed terrorists in the West Bank.
June 1996: Using their favorite terrorist “killing tool,” a truck bomb, 19 U.S. Airmen were killed and approximately 500 others were wounded. The attack occurred at a U.S. Airmen housing complex in Saudi Arabia and was attributed to the Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorist group.
September 1997: A Jerusalem shopping mall ws the scene for another suicide bombing by Hamas. This time, one American Israeli dual citizen was killed, and seven other American citizens wounded.
August 1998: Using a coordinated suicide bombing strategy at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah terrorists, killed 12 American citizens and 212 others.
August 2001: Three Americans were killed by a Hamas terrorist detonating a bomb in a Jerusalem pizzeria.
January 2002: Another Iranian-backed terrorist group, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, killed an American Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
July 2002: A Hamas terrorist bombing in Jerusalem at Hebrew University killed five Americans.
June 2003: Another Hamas suicide bomber struck on a Jerusalem bus killing one American and six other people.
October 2003: A bombing in Gaza by the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist group killed three U.S. diplomatic personnel.
Between 2003 and 2011: Iranian backed militias were responsible for the deaths of approximately 603 U.S. troops in Iraq. Those deaths accounted for about one in every six U.S. combat fatalities.
August 2003: Five Americans were killed and another wounded when a Hamas terrorist bombed another bus in Jerusalem,
August 2006: Hezbollah terrorists killed an American citizen while he was serving with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
January 2007: A dozen affiliates of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others after entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala, Iraq, disguised as U.S. soldiers.
March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson went missing in Iran, never to be seen or heard from again.
July 2014: Two more Americans, serving in the IDF, were killed by Hamas.
October 2015: In the West Bank, An American citizen and his wife were victims of a Hamas drive by shooting.
December 2019: A civilian contractor from the U.S. was killed and several service members wounded 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.
As the above list illustrates, President Trump’s “War of Choice” is actually a “War of Survival for our Way of Life.” The military action taken by our President is 47 years overdue. In my opinion it would have been possible grounds for impeachment had President Trump not acted to protect the United States from Iran. Iran is an enemy who has been killing our citizens for almost 50 years. President Trump’s bold action will help make the world safer from Iranian-backed terrorists and lead to increased economic prosperity by:
· Eliminating Iran’s nuclear threat.
· Decimating their military capabilities.
· Cripple the Iranian economy with the blockade thus hampering their financial capacity to support terrorist proxies worldwide.
· Changing the world’s oil distribution dynamics. Iran will no longer have a stranglehold on the world’s oil supply through control of the Straits of Hormuz. Oil dependent nations can now turn to the U.S. to fulfill their need for a stable and safe flow of oil.
I know this may sound a bit provocative, but defeating Iran on the battlefield may be the easy part. The difficult part will be assuring Iran’s compliance with any peace agreement. Iran is notoriously two-faced concerning treaties and agreements. Iran’s leaders agree to one thing and then do the opposite. Iranians are highly skilled at using deception in negotiations.
Keeping Iran on the straight and narrow will require a global effort. At home the Democrat party needs to discard their typical partisan power plays against all things Trump. Note to Schumer and Jeffries:
“Put country before party and become part of the solution to our conflict with Iran. By working with the Trump administration to ratify a treaty with Iran, you may gain more political capital than by being an obstacle.”
We came together as a nation after 9/11. We can’t afford to wait to unify until after New York City becomes a nuclear devastated wasteland at the hands of an Iranian proxy . We are at a critical juncture in world history that goes way beyond U.S. partisan politics. I call on all Americans to embody the same spirit of the patriots who forged this nation 250 years ago and stop Iran’s “Death to America” mission.
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