Kamala Harris Blames Israel for ‘Dragging U.S. Into War With Iran’

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Kamala Harris, the once and possibly future candidate of the Democratic Party to be president, has just let it be known that it is Israel that dragged America into a completely unnecessary war with Iran, putting the lives of American young men at risk for its own selfish geopolitical aims. President Trump was quick to contradict her. He wrote on Truth Social that he was not influenced by Israel into launching strikes against Iran:

So now Kamala Harris has joined the chorus of Israel-haters and Israel-blamers. She is singing along with such people as Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Graham Platner, who all claim that Israel managed to beguile President Trump into going to war against Iran. For in their view, there was apparently no reason for the U.S. to be alarmed about Iran, which, they claimed, posed no threat to America.

Is Kamala Harris right? Was Iran really no threat to the United States, but only to Israel? Let’s see. For the past 47 years, ever since the Islamic Republic was founded, Iranians have screamed their hatred not just of the Little Satan, Israel, but also of the Great Satan, America, with as much vehemence. A favorite activity of Iranians has been to take part in mass demonstrations, where participants first stomp on, and then set fire to, American and Israeli flags. In 1979, in the first year of the Islamic Republic, Iranian students seized the American Embassy in Tehran and held its personnel hostage for 444 days. The regime praised the captors, and only freed the captives after Reagan was elected president and, unlike the milquetoast Jimmy Carter, threatened to liberate them through violence.

Here is a complete list of attacks on Americans, including killings, carried out by Iran-backed terrorists from 1979 up to 2025:

Here is only a partial record of the Iranian regime’s blood-soaked war on Americans:

• • November 1979: Iranian students, backed by the regime, seized  the U.S. Embassy in Tehran — taking 66 Americans hostage in a 444-day standoff .
  • April 1983: The Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group, carried out  a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
  • October 1983: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed  241 U.S. military personnel — including 220 U.S. Marines and 21 other service personnel — in a truck bombing at a Marine compound in Beirut.
  • March 1984: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists kidnapped  CIA station chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut, ultimately killing him the following year.
  • September 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed  23 innocent people — including  two American service members — in a car bomb attack at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut.
  • December 1984: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked  Kuwait Airways Flight 221 en route to Pakistan, diverting it to Tehran — where they brutally tortured and killed  two American officials.
  • June 1985: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists hijacked  TWA Flight 847 on its way from Athens to Rome, torturing a U.S. Navy diver before shooting him point blank in the head and tossing his body onto the Beirut airport tarmac.
  • July 1989: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed  U.S. Marine Col. William Higgins after kidnapping him the previous year while serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
  • April 1995: Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists killed  eight people — including one American citizen — in a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip.
  • August 1995: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up  a bus in Jerusalem, killing an American and three other passengers, and wounding more than 100 others.
  • February 1996: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber blew up  another bus in Jerusalem, killing three Americans and wounding three other Americans.
  • March 1996: A suicide bomber linked to the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups killed  20 people — including two Americans — in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv shopping center.
  • May 1996: Iran-backed terrorists killed  an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounded another American citizen in the West Bank.
  • June 1996: Iran-backed Hezbollah Al-Hijaz terrorists killed  19 U.S. Airmen and wounded nearly 500 others in a truck bombing at a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia.
  • September 1997: Iran-backed Hamas suicide bombers blew themselves up  at a shopping mall in Jerusalem, killing an American-Israeli dual citizen and wounding seven other American citizens.
  • August 1998: Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, facilitated  by Iran-backed Hezbollah, simultaneously bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing  224 people — including a dozen American citizens.
  • August 2001: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up  a Jerusalem pizzeria, killing three Americans.
  • January 2002: An Iran-backed al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade terrorist killed  an American-Israeli dual citizen in the West Bank.
  • July 2002: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist killed  five Americans in a bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
  • June 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas suicide bomber killed  17 people — including an American citizen — on a bus in Jerusalem.
  • October 2003: Iran-backed Popular Resistance Committees terrorists killed  three U.S. diplomatic personnel in a bombing in Gaza.
  • Between 2003 and 2011: Iran-backed militias killed  at least 603 U.S. troops in Iraq — “roughly one in every six American combat fatalities in Iraq.”
  • August 2003: An Iran-backed Hamas terrorist blew up  a bus in Jerusalem, killing five Americans and wounding one other American.
  • August 2006: Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists killed  American citizen and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Michael Levin during the Second Lebanon War — the only American to die in the conflict.
  • January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed  five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising  themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.
  • March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared  in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.
  • July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed  two American citizens serving in the IDF.
  • October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed  an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.
  • December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed  an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.
  • January 2020: 109 U.S. troops suffered  traumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.
  • September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicated  the Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
  • February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired  a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.
  • July 2021: Iranian-backed militias wounded  two U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.
  • September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed  an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated  the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.
  • March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed  an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.
  • October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed  46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.
  • December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded  three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.
  • January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah  terrorists killed  three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.
  • Between October 2023 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted  more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding  more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.
  • November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged  for plotting to assassinate President Trump.
  • June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked  at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases  in Iraq.

Read that long list of Iran-backed attacks again. That’s why President Trump went to war against Iran. He needed no persuading by Netanyahu. But try telling Kamala Harris that. She’s put her finger to the wind, felt the new anti-Israel current sweeping through her party, and decided she’d better join the chorus. What better way than to attribute Svengali-like powers of persuasion to Prime Minister Netanyahu and at the same time, to depict President Trump as a gullible tool of those wily Israelis?

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