The toll of Iran’s murderous terrorism looms large..
63 victims, including 17 Americans, killed in a 1983 truck bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon;
220 Marines, 18 Navy sailors and three Army soldiers murdered in 1983 when two truck bombs exploded outside a Marine barracks in Beirut;
Two Americans lost their lives in a 1984 suicide car bombing at the U.S. embassy in Beirut. 21 non-Americans, mostly Lebanese, were also killed in the attack;
19 Americans lost in the Khobar Tower bombing in 1996;
603 American service members slain in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-made improvised explosive devices or IEDs, according to a 2019 military review; and
Three Americans killed in January 2024 in a drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Jordan near the border with Syria conducted by two Iranians.