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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/382178/iranian-payback-long-overdue/
Iranian Payback, Long Overdue
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Thane Rosenbaum - After deposing the Shah of Iran in 1979, the Islamists' first order of business was to take 52 American diplomats hostage and hold them for 444 days. According to the ground rules of the modern world, embassies, and the diplomats who work there, are inviolable. You don't blindfold and keep them prisoner. In 1983, Iran-backed Hizbullah bombed the American Embassy in Beirut, along with a Marine barracks, killing nearly 300. In 2011, Iran attempted to blow up a restaurant in Washington, D.C. More recently, death threats against Donald Trump, and some of his advisors who scuttled the Iran deal, were issued. All along, Iranian zealots burned American flags and chanted, "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" Iran embarked on a plan to arm itself with nuclear and ballistic weapons aimed at the West - Israel only being its most favored target. It regularly cheated, lied and defied inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. With this rich history of terror sponsorship and anti-American animus, what is all this nonsense that Israel's airstrikes over Tehran is not "our war?" This is absolutely America's war - even if it allows Israel to wage it. Now let's assist Israel in finishing the job.