| US Embassy in Tehran 1979
Marine Barracks in Beirut
Strategic vision/creation of Hamas and Hizbollah
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera
Premeditated piracy and abduction was a clear act of war against the UK; and by treaty, the US and all of NATO. No need for UN vacillation on this one.
And read this list of timeline of Iranian actions in Iraq from Verum Serum
"http://www.verumserum.com/?p=951"
Timeline: Iran vs. the US in Iraq
August 2003: (link) First EFP (explosively formed projectile) attack in Iraq.
June 24, 2004: (link) Iranian leader Ali Khamenei says in a TV interview:
We have no need for a nuclear bomb. We have overcome our enemies so far, without the nuclear bomb. The Iranian people have been defeating America for the past 25 years, is it not so? America has been defeated by the Iranian people during the past 25 years. What has it been defeated with? Have we defeated America using a nuclear bomb, or by our determination, will, faith, and awareness? The world of Islam has been mobilized against America for the past 25 years.
January 26, 2005: (link) In an interview on Iranian TV, Hosein Salami, former deputy commander of operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps says:
The [Americans] eliminated the Taliban and Saddam. They conducted operations in Yugoslavia. Therefore, we are aware of the Americans’ real power. Our country has unique capacities that no other power in the Middle East or in the Persian Gulf possesses. This is the ability to manage regional crises. This is a fact. If Iran wishes to cause turbulence in the crisis areas around it, and to leave its mark - stability and security in the region will change dramatically.
May 29, 2005: (link) An EFP attack near Amara kills 21-year-old British lance corporal, Alan Brackenbury.
June 2005: (link) A Japanese convoy near Samawa is struck by a roadside bomb which uses a remote control firing device typically provided by Iran or Hezbollah.
July 19, 2005: (link) The United States secretly sends Iran a diplomatic protest through Swiss intermediaries charging that Tehran is supplying lethal roadside explosive devices (EFPs) to Shiite extremists in Iraq. “Message from the United States to the Government of Iran” — informed the Iranians of the May 29th attack on Cpl. Brackenbury and notes that the Shiite militants who planted the device had longstanding ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran.
August 2005: (link) Iran denies any connection to the EFPs being used in Iraq.
September 2005: (link) British forces arrest Ahmad Jawwad al-Fartusi, the leader of a splinter group of the Mahdi Army that carried out E.F.P. attacks against British forces in southern Iraq. American intelligence concludes that his fighters might have received training and E.F.P. components from Hezbollah.
October 2005: (link) British ambassador to Iraq, William Patey, tells reporters in London that Iran is supplying lethal technology that had been used against British troops. Prime Minister Tony Blair adds, “The particular nature of those devices lead us to either to Iranian elements or to Hezbollah.”
March 7, 2006: (link) Defense Secretary Rumsfeld publicly accuses Iran of sending Revolutionary Guard forces into Iraq, saying “They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq, and we know it, and it is something that they will look back on as having been an error in judgement.”
April 2006: (link) EFP attacks in Iraq rise sharply.
May 6, 2006: (link) A British Lynx helicopter is shot down over Basra, killing five. On 3/4/2007 an investigation into the incident concludes that the chopper was brought down by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile known as an SA14 Strella, which was manufactured in Iran.(link)
September 7, 2006: (link) A joint border patrol made up of US and Iraqi soldiers is ambushed by a platoon of Iranian soldiers. Rounds exchanged. The US troops retreat and report the incident. The Iraqi troops they were patroling with remain unaccounted for.
(link) Time magazine reports that at least one Iranian soldier, who had been aiming a rocket at US forces, was killed in the incident.
October-December, 2006: (link) Excluding casualty data for the Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, where the explosives have not been found, the devices (EFPs) account for about 30 percent of American and allied deaths this quarter of the year.
November 2, 2006: (link) Cpl. Daniel James –interpreter for Gen David Richards, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan — is charged with “prejudicing the safety of the state” by passing information “calculated to be directly or indirectly useful to the enemy”. It was said he had communicated with a “foreign power” in the incident on Nov 2, believed to be Iran.
November 12, 2006: (link) In a TV interview on Iran’s channel 2, General Yahya Rahim Safavi, General Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps says:
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