46 Years of American Blood: The War with Iran Didn't Start Today - It Started in 1979

By Michael McCune

𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡…

Consider this.

For 46 years the Iranian regime and its proxies have attacked Americans.

Embassies bombed.

Marines killed.

U.S. troops murdered with Iranian weapons.

And almost every time…

Washington did nothing.

𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡

Today we dismantle every one of them.

They claim:

• Trump has no plan

• He violated the War Powers Act

• Iran was not an imminent threat

• America is simply caving to Israel

Let’s walk through them.

But first Americans need to understand something the media rarely explains.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬

For more than four decades the United States has been in a shadow war with Iran.

Americans attacked.

Americans killed.

Iran used proxies.

Washington issued warnings.

Again.

And again.

And again.

Here are just a few examples.

𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗦 — 1979

President: Jimmy Carter

66 Americans taken hostage.

52 held for 444 days.

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None

𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗥𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 — 1983

President: Ronald Reagan

241 U.S. Marines killed.

63 killed at the U.S. Embassy earlier that year.

Iran-backed Hezbollah responsible.

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None

𝗞𝗛𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 — 1996

President: Bill Clinton

Truck bomb at U.S. Air Force housing in Saudi Arabia.

19 American airmen killed.

Nearly 400 wounded.

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None

𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗤 — 2005–2008

President: George W. Bush

Iran supplied militias with Explosively Formed Penetrators designed to destroy U.S. armored vehicles.

Estimated 600 American troops killed.

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None

𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗫𝗬 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 — 2023–2024

President: Joe Biden

More than 100 rocket and drone attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria.

Dozens of American service members wounded.

𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: None

For 46 years the pattern never changed.

Iran attacked through proxies.

Americans died.

Washington warned.

𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟭 — “𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡”

False.

Carrier strike groups moved.

Bombers repositioned.

Missile defenses surged.

Military operations of this scale take weeks of preparation.

That’s not chaos.

That’s planning.

𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟮 — “𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧”

Also false.

Congress must be notified within 48 hours.

That happened.

The president then has 60 days of authority, with an optional 30-day extension.

Up to 90 days total.

This debate is less about law…

and more about political theater.

𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟯 — “𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗡 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧”

Imminent threat depends on three things:

Capability.

Intent.

Time.

Iran had uranium enriched near 60%.

Weapons-grade uranium is 90%.

At that point the remaining gap becomes weeks — not years.

When a regime that chants “Death to America” approaches nuclear capability…

imminent is not a debate.

𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 #𝟰 — “𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟”

This ignores military reality.

Israel could strike Iran.

But Israel could not eliminate the threat alone.

Iran’s military infrastructure is massive and hardened.

Neutralizing it requires assets only the United States possesses.

Strategic bombers.

Carrier strike groups.

Advanced bunker-penetrating weapons.

That isn’t caving.

That is coordinated strategy.

𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬

The United States cannot declare regime change as its mission.

The Constitution limits the president’s authority to neutralizing threats to America.

Destroy the capability.

Remove the threat.

If the Iranian people choose to change their government afterward…

the world will welcome it.

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬

For forty-six years the cycle repeated.

Iran attacked.

Americans died.

Washington warned.

Again.

And again.

And again.

At some point a nation must decide:

Will it keep managing the consequences…

or finally remove the source of the threat?

Donald Trump did not start this conflict.

It began in 1979.

For decades presidents warned Iran.

Trump is the first one who decided the cycle had to end.