ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN - ITS ... ISLAMIC HEZBOLLAH ARM - ATTACKS ON COUNTRIES, POPULATION

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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN - ITS HEZBOLLAH ARM - ATTACKS ON COUNTRIES, POPULATION

* 1979, Iran's Islamic revolutionary guards hijack Americans at the U.S. embassy in Tehran.[1][2]

* Attacking US Marine Barracks in Oct. 1983, killing 241 Americans and 58 French soldiers.[3][1][4] Marking a milestone in global terror - massacres tactics, with Hezbollah's introduction of the 'massive bombing' by suicide, by the 'truck bomb.'[5] Under the "spiritual" guidance of Sheik Fadlallah.'[6][7]

* The 1983 attacks on US and French embassies in Kuwait. Six people (including the bomber) killed, more than 80 injured.[1][8][9] This time, the Iran backed terror group using an alias name "the call."[10]

* Hijacking of Kuwaiti airlines in 1984 - flight 221, four passengers are murdered,[11] in 1988 - Flight 422.[12][13]

* In 1984 Iran attacked Kuwaiti and Saudi oil tankers.[14][15]
String of kidnapping, torturing westerners between 1982-1992,[16] including hijacking US personell.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] The kidnapping of 30 Westerners in that period are attributed to Hezbollah.[1][25][26]

* 1984-6 Kidnap, torture and murder of Lebanese Jews.[27]

* Bombing of US embassy in Lebanon in April 18, 1983, killing 63.[28][1]

* Sept. 20, 1984, Hezbollah bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24.[29][30]

* Bombings in Paris, France, in 1985 and 1986, 13 killed, hundreds injured.[12]

* April 12, 1985 bombing of a restaurant in Madrid, Spain, 18 Spaniards killed, 15 Americans injured, Hezbollah claimed responsibilty under its "Islamic Jihad" alias.[31][32]
Hijacking of TWA flight in 1985 en route to Rome from Athens.[33][34] Robert Dean Stethem was brutally beaten by the Hezbollah before being executed.[35]

* Attacking Israel via Hezbollah and Hamas[36][37] terror "freedom fighting" Jihadi organizations.[38][39][25] More noticeably - Iranian equipped[40] and technoligally supported[41] - missile attacks by the Hezbollah on residents beginning in mid 1993,[42] continuing after the IDF pulled out of Lebanon[43] and in the war of 2006. Hamas' massacres targeting Israeli civilans have caused great havoc, heavy casualties, especially during the height of the "intifadas," it rose since 2000.[44] At times the two terror groups joined in attack.[45]

* Downing of a French airline in October 1989 (Palestinian-Hezbollah linked operation).[46]
Unsuccessful attempt to carry out attacks in Cyprus in 1988; a plot, foiled by Spanish police, to carry out attacks against Jewish targets in Europe in 1989; an unsuccessful attempt to detonate a car bomb outside a Jewish community building in Romania in 1992; and a planned 1996 attack, also foiled by police, on an Israeli institution in Paris.[47]

* 1992 Bombing of Israeli embassy in Argentina. Killed 29.[48][49]

* 1994 Bombing of AMIA Jewish community building in Argentina, killed 85 and wounded 300, both, Iran and Hezbollah were charged.[50][51]

* July 19, 1994 bombing of Panamanian airline. Kills everyone (21) on board.[52][53]

* July 26, 1994, Israeli embassy bombing in London, injuring 14.[54]

* 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, 19 American servicemen killed, over 500 people injured in the apartment complex. Iran is linked.[55][31]

* Killing of many American and British soldiers in Iraq (its trainers and weapons found there).[56][57][58] Dating at least since November 24, 2003 as reported then by the New York Times.[59] The Iranian/Hezbollah involvement includes training Iraqis how to kidnap Americans.[60][61]

* Killing of many of US, NATO soldiers in Afghanistan (backing Taliban).[62][63][64]
Hezbollah "activities" in Somalia (as accused by United Nations monitors) helping the terrorists Islamists.[65][66]

* Many (Christian and moderate, pro-western) Lebanese citizens fell victims to the terrorizing Hezbollah mob.[67][68][69]

* Use of Lebanese civilians, in its wars against Israel.[70][71][72][73]

* In 2009, Hezbollah plotted attacks on Egyptian targets.[74][75]

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