Ben Shapiro

Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 American service members in a single morning.

It was the deadliest single-day death toll for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima.

The attack was planned and executed with Iranian money, training and direction.

In March 1984,

Iranian-sponsored terrorists kidnapped and killed CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut.

In December 1984, Iranian-backed terrorists hijacked a Kuwaiti airplane and killed two USAID workers.

In June of 1985, Hezbollah terrorists hijacked a TWA flight.

In July 1989, Hezbollah terrorists killed a US Marine colonel.

During the Iran-Iraq War, both of those countries were attacking commercial tankers in the Persian Gulf.

Sound familiar?

The US Navy began escorting reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks.

An Iranian mine struck the USS Samuel B. Roberts in 1988.

It did heavy damage to the ship.

So, in Operation Praying Mantis, the United States sank virtually the entire Iranian Navy in one day.

That did not stop Iran.

They kept building their global terror network.

They bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, killing 19 U.S.

airmen.

In 1998, with the assistance of Hezbollah, al-Qaeda suicide bombers simultaneously blew up U.S.

embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans, wounding thousands.