Let’s get something straight right off the bat: while the Middle East heats up again and everyone in Washington is dusting off their war drums, Rep. Ilhan Omar has a hot take—and wow, is it something.
According to Omar, “No one is attacking or has attacked Americans. It’s time to stop dragging Americans into war and letting Israel once again get America involved in their chosen war. Stand up for the Americans who believed you wanted peace and don’t commit another generation of Americans into a costly war.”
That’s right. Apparently, we’ve all just imagined the decades of attacks, the body bags, and the terror plots. Nobody has attacked us. At all. Some people did something. Move along.
Except, inconveniently for her narrative, literally everything we know contradicts that.
Let’s start with the guy she’s criticizing—President Donald Trump. He didn’t hold back, saying Iran must offer “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” on Truth Social and warned that we’re not hitting Ayatollah Khamenei “at least not for now,” though America’s “patience is wearing thin.”
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And according to Fox News Digital, which published a report right after Omar’s comments, her claim is flat-out false. The piece breaks down a mountain of examples—actual attacks, assassinations, and strikes by Iran and its proxies against U.S. citizens and forces. Not opinions. Facts.
Did Omar clarify or defend her statement? Nope. “Omar’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiry about the validity of her claim.”
Meanwhile, over in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sounding the alarm. He told Fox News’ Bret Baier that Trump is a walking target. “They want to kill him. He’s enemy No. 1.”
Get a load of this. In November, the Department of Justice unveiled charges against an Iranian operative and two New Yorkers for orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot. The target list? Multiple Americans, including Trump.
And if you think this is just about threats, not action, let’s revisit the bloody reality.
From 2003 to 2011, Iran played a deadly role in Iraq, responsible for the deaths of 603 American service members. That’s not speculation—it’s confirmed by a 2019 Pentagon report cited in Military Times. Let this sink in: nearly one out of every six U.S. combat deaths in that war can be traced back to Tehran’s actions.
In 2022, families of fallen and wounded Americans sued Iran under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and they won. Why? Iran’s fingerprints were all over the terror groups that killed or maimed 30 U.S. personnel in Afghanistan.
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the Long War Journal, took the stand to back the victims, lending his expertise to expose Iran’s deadly role. He told Fox News Digital that “Iran’s support for the Taliban and al Qaeda and the impact it had on the deaths and injuries to American soldiers and civilians is incalculable.”
“Iran provided money, weapons, training, intelligence, and safe haven to Taliban subgroups across Afghanistan, including in the heart of the country in Kabul,” Roggio said.
He even went further: “Iran’s support for the Taliban was only rivaled by that of Pakistan. I would argue that Iran’s extensive support facilitated nearly every Taliban attack on U.S. personnel.”
But Omar wants you to believe that Americans were never attacked, like none of it ever happened.
Let’s jump to 2020—remember Gen. Qasem Soleimani? After he was taken out, Iran responded by launching surface-to-surface missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq. That wasn’t a warning shot. That was retaliation.
Then there’s a 2022 court case. Another ruling against Iran—this time over 40 U.S.
American service members who were wounded or lost their lives in Iraq. Same pattern: Iranian cash and weapons funding the terror.
And it gets worse. In a 2023 interview with Iran’s state-controlled media (because yes, they still do that), Sayyed Issa Tabatabai—Khamenei’s man in Lebanon—openly admitted Iran was behind the 1983 bombings in Lebanon.
The result? Sixty-three dead at the U.S. Embassy, including 17 Americans. Later, two suicide truck bombs blew up Marine barracks. We lost 220 Marines, 18 sailors, 3 soldiers, and 58 French troops. But Omar wants you to believe “no one” attacked Americans.
From October 2023 to August 2024, Iranian-backed militias carried out 180 attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. According to Roggio, these militant groups “are estimated to have killed more than 600 U.S. service members.”
In January 2024, a lethal drone strike slammed into a U.S. outpost in Jordan, taking the lives of three American troops and wounding 25 others. Two Iranians—one of them a dual U.S. citizen—were later charged in connection with the attack.
At the time, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul nailed it: Iranian proxies had “launched over 150 attacks on U.S. troops” since Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
On June 14, Roggio reported that Iranian-backed militias launched a drone attack aimed at Ain al Assad, a U.S. military base in Iraq. Thankfully, they were shot down.
According to Roggio, this attack looked like an “unsanctioned strike by an unnamed Iranian militia. Unlike past attacks, no group has claimed credit, and there have been no follow-on strikes.” His takeaway? Iran “wants to keep the U.S. out of the fight, as the U.S. military has the capability to hit the underground nuclear facility at Fordow.”
But sure. Let’s pretend none of this happened. Let’s pretend Iran isn’t attacking Americans. Let’s pretend every one of those names on every one of those headstones was just a coincidence.
Because apparently, in the fantasy world of Rep. Ilhan Omar, reality is optional.
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