Iran Official Admits Role in 1983 Beirut Bombings
2nd October 2023
Sayyed Issa Tabatabai’s comments marked the first public acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the bombings: at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed; and the barracks of American and French members of the Multinational Force in October 1983, in which 242 U.S. Marines and 58 French troops were killed.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) interview with Tabatabai, who represents Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Lebanon.
MEMRI reported that the part of the interview in which Tabatabai acknowledged receiving then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering attacks on American and Israeli targets in Lebanon was removed by IRNA from its website shortly after publication.
My, what a surprise.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.