| ▲ | gryzzly 3 hours ago | |||||||
1979-1981 - Tehran, Iran — 66 Americans held hostage 444 days 1983 Apr - Beirut, Lebanon — 17 Americans killed (U.S. Embassy bombing) 1983 Oct - Beirut, Lebanon — 241 U.S. military killed (Marine barracks bombing) 1984 Mar - Beirut, Lebanon — 1 American killed (CIA chief Buckley kidnapped, later killed) 1985 Jun - Beirut, Lebanon — 1 American killed (TWA Flight 847 hijacking) 1989 Jul - Lebanon — 1 American killed (Col. Higgins murdered) 1995 Apr - Gaza Strip — 1 American killed (car bomb) 1995 Aug - Jerusalem, Israel — 1 American killed, 100+ wounded (bus bombing) 1996 Feb - Jerusalem, Israel — 3 Americans killed, 3 wounded (bus bombing) 1996 Mar - Tel Aviv, Israel — 2 Americans killed (shopping center bombing) 1996 May - West Bank — 1 American killed, 1 wounded 1996 Jun - Khobar, Saudi Arabia — 19 Americans killed, ~500 wounded (Khobar Towers) 1997 Sep - Jerusalem, Israel — 1 American killed, 7 wounded (mall bombing) 1998 Aug - Nairobi/Dar es Salaam — 12 Americans killed, thousands wounded (embassy bombings) 2001 Sep - New York/Washington D.C. — Iran facilitated transit of hijackers (2,977 total killed) 2002 Jan - West Bank — 1 American killed 2002 Jul - Jerusalem, Israel — 5 Americans killed (Hebrew University bombing) 2003 Aug - Jerusalem, Israel — 5 Americans killed (bus bombing) 2003 Oct - Gaza Strip — 3 Americans killed (diplomatic convoy bombing) 2003-2011 - Iraq — 603 U.S. troops killed (Iranian-backed militia IED/EFP campaign) 2011 - Washington D.C. — 0 casualties (assassination plot on Saudi ambassador foiled) 2019 Jun - Strait of Hormuz — 0 casualties (U.S. Global Hawk drone shot down) 2019 Sep - Saudi Arabia — 0 American casualties (Abqaiq oil facility drone strike) 2019 Dec - Baghdad, Iraq — 0 casualties (U.S. Embassy stormed) 2020 Jan - Ain al-Assad, Iraq — 100+ U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries (ballistic missile strike) 2021-2022 - Iraq/Syria — ongoing U.S. base attacks by Iranian-backed militias 2023 Oct-Nov - Iraq/Syria — 60+ attacks in Iraq, 90+ in Syria; scores of U.S. troops wounded 2024 Jan 28 - Tower 22, Jordan — 3 Americans killed, 34+ wounded (drone strike) 2024 - Red Sea/Yemen — ongoing Houthi drone/missile attacks on U.S. naval assets 2024 Nov - United States — 0 casualties (Trump assassination plot foiled) | ||||||||
| ▲ | srean 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
30K to 50K Iranians killed by chemical weapons attacks by US proxy, Iraq. Credible sources estimate 100K killed and 30K-50K is a conservative lowball estimate. This is an active unhealed wound in Iran. Families of the dead still grieve those killed in cemeteries and graves that are there in almost all their major cities. Iran has every reason to not like the US which has been destabilising and killing and crippling them economically for several decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_against... Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship. The missiles hit the Iran Air aircraft, an Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, shortly after the flight departed its stopover location, Bandar Abbas International Airport. All 290 people on board were killed. No apologies have been forthcoming. | ||||||||
| ▲ | curt15 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
History doesn't start in 1979. One can draw a direct line to those events from 1953. | ||||||||
| ▲ | panja 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Interesting you started in 1979 instead of 1953 | ||||||||
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Would be stronger with a source. Otherwise, it feels on the border of being potential AI slop. | ||||||||
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