Beirut Barracks Atrocity: Iran Ordered the Bomb That Killed 241 US Marines

by Susan Katz Keating

When President Donald Trump announced the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, he cited the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines. He included it as part of Iran’s long record of directing proxy attacks on American forces. Here’s how the day unfolded.

Morning reveille had not yet sounded at the Marine Corps barracks on Oct 23, 1983, when a Hezbollah terrorist drove a bomb-laden truck into the building in Beirut, Lebanon. The...