“ Squad ” omar progressive claims that Iran has never attacked the Americans because evidence shows the opposite
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While legislators debate the role, if necessary, the United States should play in the climbing of the conflict between Israel and Iran, the progressive member “Squad” rep. Ilhan OmarD-minn., Made the curious affirmation that no one “attacked” the United States.
“No one attacks or has attacked the Americans. It is time to stop shooting Americans in the war and letting Israel involve America in their chosen war. Defend the Americans who believed that you wanted peace and do not commit another generation of Americans in an expensive war”, Omar said in response to President Donald Trump.
Trump called for “unconditional surrender of Iran!” On Truth Social Tuesday, and said the United States The supreme leader of Iran will not strike, Ayatollah Khamenei, “at least not for the moment”, but reported that “the patience of America is thin”.
A Fox News Digital Report published on Wednesday morning refutes Omar’s assertion that the Americans have not been attacked, in particular large examples of Iran’s direct and proxy strikes on American forces, support for terrorist groups and assassination efforts.
In this April 20, 2021, the representative of the Ilhan Omar file photo, D-minn., Speaking at Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, during a press conference. (MORRY GASH / AP PHOTO)
Omar’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s investigation into the validity of his complaint.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Bret Baier told Fox News on Monday that Trump remains a target of the Islamic Republic. “They want to kill him. He is enemy n ° 1.”
The Ministry of Justice announced accusations against an Iranian citizen and two New Yorkers in November for their role in a murder plot for the rental targeting several American citizens, including Trump.
Iran is responsible for the death of 603 American soldiers in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, according to a 2019 Pentagon report quoted by the Military time. This figure represented 17% of American deaths in the country during the period.
In 2022, family members and surviving victims won a case against the Islamic Republic of IranUsing the law on foreign sovereign immunities to keep the regime responsible for supporting terrorist actors who killed or injured 30 US staff in Afghanistan.
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Parents and friends of Daisy Yitzhaki, 85, who was killed during an Iranian missile attack, cry during his funeral in the Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva, Israel on Wednesday. (Photo Oded Balilty / AP)
Bill Roggio, principal researcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor-in-chief of the Long War Journal which testified in support of the victims, told Fox News Digital that “Iran’s support for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and the impact he had on deaths and injuries to American soldiers and civilians is unable”.
“”Iran Supplied with money, weapons, training, intelligence and refuge to Taliban subgroups across Afghanistan, including at the heart of the country in Kabul, “said Roggio.
According to Roggio’s estimate, “Iran’s support for the Taliban was only competed by that of Pakistan. I would say that the extensive support of Iran has facilitated almost all Taliban attacks against American staff.”
In 2020, in the attempted remuneration for the murder of the Islamic guard of the revolutionary, General Qassem Soleimani, Iran targeted two United States bases housing American troops in Iraq with surface surface missiles.
In 2022, the Washington American district court, DC noted that Iran also had damages to families and victims of 40 American soldiers injured or killed in Iraq due to Iran’s support to terrorism in the country.
The air defense of Israel targets Iranian missiles in the sky of Tel Aviv in Israel on June 16, 2025. (Matan Golan / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
In 2023, Sayyed Issa Tabatabai, representative of the Iranian supreme chief Ali Khamenei in Lebanon, admitted during an interview with the press agency of the Islamic Republic (IRNA) that the Islamic Republic was involved in two 1983 bomb attacks which killed Americans in Lebanon.
The bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut resulted in the death of 63 victims, including 17 Americans. When two-suicide truck bombs exploded multinational forces in Lebanon in the barracks, 220 navies, 18 sailors from the US Navy and three American army soldiers were killed and 58 French soldiers were murdered.
Between October 2023 and August 2024, the Islamic resistance supported by Iran in Iraqi militias launched 180 attacks against American forces in Syria, Iraq and Jordan. Throughout their “decades of experience,” said Roggio, the Iraqi militias “would have killed more than 600 American soldiers.”
In January 2024, three Americans were killed and 25 others were injured in a drone attack on an outpost in Jordan near the border with Syria. Two Iranians, one of whom had double American citizenship, were charged in the attack.
At the time of the attack, the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Michael McCaul Chamber, R-Texas, said that Iranian proxies had “launched more than 150 attacks On American troops “after Hamas’ October 7 attacks against Israel.
Smoke rises from the construction of Iranian state television after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran on Monday. (Photo ap)
Roggio reported that on June 14, militias supported by Iran “launched three drones” in Ain Al Assad, an American base in western Iraq. The drones were slaughtered before reaching their target.
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He said that drone’s attack seemed to be a “strike not authorized by an Iranian militia without name. Unlike past attacks, no group has claimed credit and there was no follow -up.” He thinks that Iran “wants to keep the United States out of combat, because the American army has the capacity to strike the underground nuclear installation of Fordow”.
