Iran – 40 years of terror

By CUFI

On Sunday the IDF reported that a missile was fired in to the Golan Heights by Iranian forces from an area near Damascus. The missile was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome system. This is yet another act of aggression by the regime in Tehran towards the Jewish state.  In response to the missile attack, the Israeli Air Force struck Iranian targets in Syria.

That brings us to today….

A few hours ago, Syria’s envoy to the United Nations warned that if the world body did not halt Israeli strikes on his country, Syria would retaliate with an attack on Ben Gurion International Airport.

Background…

Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought the current radical regime into power, Iran has openly expressed its desire to destroy the world’s only Jewish state. Tehran has likewise remained hostile towards the United States, including supporting terror attacks against Americans and kidnapping American citizens visiting the Islamic Republic.

Beyond mere rhetoric, Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terror, spending an estimated $16 billion annually “to support terrorists and rogue regimes.” Iran’s primary terrorist client is Hezbollah, but Tehran also sends hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and weapons to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad each year.

Israel is Iran’s primary target in the region, but the Islamic Republic’s hatred for the United States is no smaller. In fact, in 2017 two individuals were arrested in the United States and “charged with performing surveillance on prospective targets for attacks to be carried out by Hezbollah’s external operations wing, Islamic Jihad.”

In the coming weeks and months, CUFI will seek to advance legislation that sanctions Iran for its support for terror, human rights violations and continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability. Likewise, we are currently seeking to move forward legislation, blocked last year by Senator Rand Paul, that is central to maintaining Israel’s ability to defend itself from Iran and the Islamic Republic’s terrorist proxies.

Israel needs you to raise your voice in support of these bills. It is our God given right to communicate our beliefs to our elected officials. And the best among us has made immense sacrifices to protect that right from freedom’s enemies.  We ask that you keep an eye out for CUFI’s Action Alerts on these topics and make sure your voice is heard in our nation’s capital on these vital matters.