Chuck Grassley: “this year, at my annual 99 county meetings, I was asked about the operations in Iran and was asked the question of why…”

“this year, at my annual 99 county meetings, I was asked about the operations in Iran and was asked the question of why the administration's actions were necessary. For starters, there are historic reasons the United States must address the threat of Iran. "Death to America," we hear from over there, and that is death to individual Americans. Just recently--last week, for instance--there was an Iraqi indicted. He was captured overseas and brought to the United States because his sole purpose was to kill people, including even here in America. If you go back to 1979, when it started, Iranian revolutionaries almost immediately seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 American hostage for 444 days. One of those Foreign Service officers was a native of Waverly, IA. Four years later, Iranian-backed terrorist groups carried out a suicide car bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. They drove two truck bombs into the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut--killing over 250 Americans. In 1996, the Iranian regime carried out another truck bombing near a United States Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia--killing 19 Americans and wounding more than 370. In 2007, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out a plot in Iraq that killed five members of the United States armed services and wounded three others.”